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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Alan M. Friedman" <alan@kether.intellint.com>
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Subject: Re: HELP!-Re: ifconfig MEDIA error..."media 10base2/BNC"
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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alan M. Friedman wrote:

> 	Thanks!  This worked and I was finally able to use
> the 3com install program to set the config to TR:COAX from
> autosense,  but the problem wasn't solved, unfortunately.  :-((
> 
> 	So now I have the 3com EtherLink III PCMCIA card set to
> use BNC, and it is probed OK, but any ifconfig I do leaves
> FreeBSD only able to do a localhost ping . . . all other
> hosts on my LAN give "host is down"

Check your routing. Now it sounds like you don't have a default route.

> 	Sorry to take up so much bandwidth on this same
> question, but assuming the system IS trying to use the BNC connection
> on the EtherLink III,  what other circumstances could cause this???

I don't mind at all.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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