Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:56:38 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Walt Roberts <wroberts@med.wayne.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP thin Enet and Micros**T Win98 Message-ID: <37099406.7D875CA5@3-cities.com> References: <37099125.45CFA507@med.wayne.edu>
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You have to install the tcp/ip protocol from start>control panel>network. You can talk at this point. If you don't have dhcp, create a hosts file with your ip addresses in your windows\system directory. One thing you need to run is sfc and checkpoint your win98 files. Kent Walt Roberts wrote: > > I am very sorry to trouble this list with this problem, but I'm at > Witt's End. We have a single MS-Win98 system for doing things the hard > way, mainly due to the software investment. This system was running > Win95 until it crashed, burned and was salvaged by installing Win98. > Data is back, life is almost good. We can't go back to 95 due to > corrupt registries and other bad things. > > Problem: > We need to talk to the FreeBSD 2.2.2 systems on the thin ethernet. > Win98 took this away from us. (We have a work around -- dial in and use > sz/rz, or ppp -direct but this is hokey and it's tying up phone lines). > > FreeBSD box is properly configured and is assigned pvt address > 192.168.1.1, no DNS or other stuff to get in the way. Besides, its run > for over 200 days without a glitch 24/7 no reboots and it talks to > others (VAX/VMS -- yup we still use it). > > Win98 box is Via 503+/AMDk6/65 Mb mem. SMC EZcard 10 with SMC drivers > (and who knows what other stuff MS shoved down its throat.) > > 1. If I ping the PC (192.168.1.100/mask 255.255.255.0) it talks to > itself. > 2. SMC drivers and debugers say the card works and is happy. > 3. If I ping the FreeBSD box, I get request timeout. > 4. If I ping the PC from the FreeBSD box, it reports 100% packet loss. > 5. SMC doesn't supply a UNIX program to test transnetwork operations, > and I don't have/don't want to make another windows box to try their > stuff, besides it worked before and the appropriate lights light up on > the cards at ping time. > > If anybody can point me in the right direction, since Microsoft's stock > response is call your vendor and their response is call Microsoft, I > would greatly appreciate it. > > Walt Roberts > wroberts@med.wayne.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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