From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 10:43:33 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA06780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:43:33 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA06774 for ; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:43:32 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA21949; Wed, 3 May 1995 10:43:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199505031743.KAA21949@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Alex Tang cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3c509 question. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 1995 12:14:28 EDT." <199505031614.MAA25155@petrified.cic.net> Date: Wed, 03 May 1995 10:43:25 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hi folks. This may be a faq, but i didn't find in it the faq. :) > >After venturing away from the 386/Net/FreeBSD scene for a while (i ran >386bsd-0.1 and NetBSD-0.8 when they first came out....Yoweee) I've >got FreeBSD-2.0RELEASE running on my machine. I just got the bindist >installed, and it boots fine. The problem is that i can't get the >ethernet interface (a 3c509, ep0) to come up. The 3c509 i've got is a >combo card (BNC, AUI, and TP connectors). I'm using the TP interface. It > >Is there some flag i need to pass to ifconfig to make it use the TP >interface? if so, what's the syntax? Yes, "link2". You should add it to the end of the ifconfig line in /etc/hostname.ep0. >Thanx for any help! > >...alex... -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================