From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 17:39:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA18392 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:39:32 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA18385 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:39:28 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA02114; Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:39:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199504110039.RAA02114@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones) cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3Com E-net In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Apr 1995 21:52:52 EDT." <9504092152.AA22043@LL.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:39:24 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Howdy, > I'm setting up FreeBSD for the first time and having a bit of >trouble getting my network card configured. It's a 3Com 3C5x9 EISA >card. The initial generic kernel didn't find it at all, which is no >surprise because its IOADDR is not settable and it seems to have chosen >0x4000 rather than 0x300. So I built a new kernel with the new address >in it and now the card is seen and can be configured (i.e. ifconfig no >longer reports IOCTL errors). However, the default route I specify >in /etc/defaultrouter never gets loaded (this line in netstart fails >silently), nor can I set it by hand ("route add default xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa" >fails with the error messages "writing to routing socket: file exists" >and "add net default: gateway xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa: file exists") If you are using the 10base-T or aui port on the card, you must add the "link2" flag to ifconfig in /etc/hostname.ep0 >/etc/hostname.ep0: >193.4.0.151 netmask 255.255.255.0 link2 ^^^^^ >I'm moderately BSD competent, but I'm pretty much stymied here. > >Eric > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================