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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 07:42:01 -0800 (PST)
From: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee)
To: Xiaowei Yang <yxw@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig kills my machine
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I always use /usr/sbin/config.  However, I don't know if that matters or
not.

john.

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Xiaowei Yang wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am really sorry to bother here. Being so frustrated and having been
> searched all possible literatures, I have to turn to this list at my
> last try.
> 
> I have two network interfaces fxp0 and de0 on my machine. I used to use
> 2.2.6. Both cards worked fine. I cvsuped RELENG_3 and complied it
> sucessfully. However, after I configured rc.conf, compiled the kernel,
> reboot the machine, it died at the point:
> 
> Doing networking initial work:hostname.
> 
> 
> After it happend several times, I commented out the ifconfig command in
> rc.network. The machine could boot then. I even had X-windows running. I
> tried to manually configure my network cards by typing:
> 
> ifconfig lo0 inet *
> ifconfig de0 inet * netmask *
> ifconfig fxp0 inet * netmask *
> 
> However, "ifconfig fxp0" killed the machine. I lost keyboard. I tried to
> uncomment the lines in rc.network and left only
> network_interfaces="lo0". Still , rebooting died at the ifconfig point.
> 
> 
> I donot know what caused the problem. I used
> /usr/obj/elf/usr/src/usr.sbin/config/config configured the kernel. Does
> it matter?
> 
> I am will very grateful if somebody could give me a hint. 
> 
> --Xiaowei
> 
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