From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 15 15:57:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28556 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28511 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22397 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:58:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:58:54 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor Reply-To: Brett Taylor To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: trouble w/ network when trying to install Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I bought a new machine recently. It is a PPro 200 machine. I made the boot floppy, started the install, chose FTP to be the media and set up the networking. I chose the same gateway, name server etc as the machine I'm writing this from and used the new machine's address. However, when the machine tries to get out of the network it dies. Looking at the pseudo-terminal I find the following message: de0: link down: cable problem? The network card I'm using presently is a PCI Ether16 LAN combo card, and I'm using the twisted pair connection. Sysinstall seems to correctly identify the card. The data light on the card is blinking so the connection to the outlet seems okay. I also know the machine's IP address is good as it was in use only 2 days ago and nothing's changed since. In case more info is needed, the machine is a Digitial PWS200i. It uses the Intel Natoma motherboard. The machine came w/ WinDoZe NT 3.51 and it also can't find the card although I feel even less sure of any diagnostics from that as I have purposefully prevented myself from gaining any WinDoZe knowledge. :-) Any one got any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks in advance. ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/