From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 08:59:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA03863 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from umdsun2.umd.umich.edu ([141.215.10.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03857 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:59:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djacobse@umdsun2.umd.umich.edu) Received: from eng16.umd.umich.edu (eng16 [141.215.10.116]) by umdsun2.umd.umich.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA07246 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:58:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by eng16.umd.umich.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA00773; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:58:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:58:57 -0500 (EST) From: douglas jacobsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ethernet card and cable modem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i have a 3com ethernet card(3c509b) in my system connected to a cable modem. for some reason when i try to install freebsd (over the network, ftp) it tells me that i have an invalid ip address. when i look at the card, neither the active connection (green) light on either the ethernet card or the cable modem is on. i was wondering if you could help get the card to initialize... btw, linux doesn't initialize it either, and so far my only luck with it is win95 (and it takes 10 min to boot, most of the time looking at the card). i have had both the ethernet card and the cable modem replaced and was wondering if you had any suggestions. thank you, douglas jacobsen