From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 14 19:02:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA05302 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05284 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 1996 19:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA15055; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:03:15 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604150233.MAA15055@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: networking: ed0 timeout To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:03:15 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at Apr 14, 96 12:32:58 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Utz stands accused of saying: > > So ed0 returns the address now and all that happy stuff. I do, > however, keep getting timeout messages when i boot the machine, and when i > shut down, I assume they are getting issued all the time, but that they > are just masked out from the console, since i dont login as root. > > Why is this happening? how can i fix this? Either 1) you're not talking to the wire (bad cabling, wrong media type selected), or 2) you have the interrupt values wrong. > Ultimately, i would like to be able to visit the /dos partition of > this machine from my win31 machine . What do folks use for this? can u run > the windows apps found on that disk on the second machine? Use 'samba' out of the ports collection. Running windows applications that haven't been explicitly installed on a system is a totally pot-luck thing - some will work, some won't, and some will "sort of" work. > when i boot. I understand that samba is not suitable for this, since i > have neither lanman or wfw or w95. The lanman client is freely available from ftp.microsoft.com, and you're only fooling yourself if you think you can network safely with win31. > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[