From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 18:06:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27276 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:06:17 -0800 (PST) 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 SAA27259 Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04671; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:39:03 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180209.MAA04671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New problem with netboot (diskless) 3c509 10Base2 To: kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:39:03 +1030 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Jan 17, 96 09:38:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > > > I have a strange problem: We have some 486 micros in a classroom. They > had SMC Ethernet BNC cards and netboot did work fine. > > Now someone did change Etherlink III cards and 10Base cable. > > Now nb3c509 cannot connect, it rotates |\-/| after "Finding server" (or > something like that), I think it is waiting answer from bootpd, it cannot > get its ip address. The DOS+Novel works fine on same micros. nb3c509 get You'll have to update the bootptab to reflect the new Ethernet addresses of the new cards. > Seppo -- ]] 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 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[