From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 20 19:21:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA26947 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:21:32 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA26941 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:21:21 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA23943; Wed, 21 Jun 1995 11:45:39 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506210215.LAA23943@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: NE2000 on 2.0 To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 11:44:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506201655.AA09244@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 20, 95 09:55:31 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1598 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Marty Leisner stands accused of saying: > I have ed1 mapped to interrupt 4/port 0x300 (this works with linux) > [I used the boot loader -c option) I'm amused. Do you have serial ports in this machine? > and get: > > ed1: device timeout (consistently) This means that the board has not delivered a 'transmit complete' interrupt. You get this when your _hardware_ isn't working; because it's configured incorrectly or because it's broken. > ip is working (I can ping localhost) > but I can't: > ping a remote host Have you sniffed the network to see whether packets are getting out? I suspect that they are, but of course you can't _receive_ them coming back. > ping the bsd machine from a remote host... That's obvious 8) > I also want to install a cross-compiling environment on linux > to make freebsd executables...and kernels... Don't. It's not worth your sanity. Export a couple hundred meg from your Linux box via NFS and install the FreeBSD tools natively. You'll get to discover how wonderful (not) Linux's NFS performance is, but you'll save yourself the trauma of having to support the BSD build tools on a system that they were never meant to run on. > marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[