From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 14 16:28:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15969 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from hopper.unh.edu (dkf@hopper.unh.edu [132.177.137.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15958 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkf@christa.unh.edu) Received: from localhost (dkf@localhost) by hopper.unh.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA13681 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:28:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:28:04 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel K Fry X-Sender: dkf@hopper.unh.edu Reply-To: Daniel K Fry To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ethernet card help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i am trying to get samba running on freebsd, but when i boot, i get a ed1: device timeout and when i run nmbd i get /kernel: ed1: device timeout i have no idea what this means or how to fix this, but i think it might be a problem with my ethernet card. i am using a d-link series 220 ethernet card and i am running freeBSD on a Gateway 486DX-33 i'm trying to network the freeBSD machine with my win95 machine that has a direct PPP conection to the outside through my com port. i have a dynamically allocated IP address for that machine and i know the IP address of our DNS server, but i'm not sure how to configure the network interfaces on the freeBSD machine. please help or point me to a better reference. thank you Daniel K. Fry daniel.fry@unh.edu