From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 18:03:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA15386 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:03:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA15378 ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:03:09 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Sir Ilya Tsymbal cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: install problem with 3c509. What to do? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 95 16:47:06 EDT." Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:03:09 -0700 Message-ID: <15376.798685389@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I am then prompted for all sortsa stuff, like IP, netmask, name, domain > name and some others. And your values for one of these is simply wrong. That's your problem. Please verify particularly that the name server and gateway values are correct - only your local system guru can tell you for sure, we certainly can't from here. Jordan > when this is all done, and the program says 'fetching the files blah blah' > I switch to the command output screen, and I see these error messages: > NcFTP: could not get your passwd entry: (9) bad file descriptor > : gethostbyname error(2): host name lookup failure > NcFTP 1.8.6 (october 20..... blah blah... > Error: improper distribution. No checksum script found. > > I know the card and the connnection works fine, I have logged in to a Novell > server with it. > > So, if you have any idea what could be wrong or what I could do to get > around th problem, I would appreciate if you tell me. > I will be checking this newsgroup (CUBFM), but please also CC: your reply > to me. > > Thanks, > > Ilya Tsymbal > > > Ilya Tsymbal '96 Harvard U, Quincy House