Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:37:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Sir Ilya Tsymbal <itsymbal@husc.harvard.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ilya Tsymbal <itsymbal@husc.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: install problem with 3c509. What to do? Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9504232133.A1800-0100000@fas> In-Reply-To: <15376.798685389@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I am then prompted for all sortsa stuff, like IP, netmask, name, domain > > name and some others. > > And your values for one of these is simply wrong. That's your > problem. Please verify particularly that the name server and gateway > values are correct - only your local system guru can tell you for > sure, we certainly can't from here. > > Jordan Hi, thanks for replying so promptly. Well, I made sure everything I type in is correct. And it was. my computer's name is itsymbal.student.harvard.edu; that's what I type in for Fully Qualified name. I know this setting is correct. my ip is 140.247.147.81; I know this is correct for sure. Next is the netmask; the default that comes up is 0xffffff00, the one I have been told I have is 255.255.255.0, which is the same as 0xffffff00, I believe. I have tried both. Any extensions to ifconfig, put them here: I am not sure about this. I didn't put any, just pressed Enter. Default gateway is my IP with a 1 at the end, 140.247.147.1 NS we are told to use is 128.103.21.15, and I checked and it's up. So, I am pretty much sure the settings are correct. Except maybe for extra flags. I tried using both primary and secondary us sources; I don't believe the FTP program ever tried to connect to either. Right after the 'fetching bin distr....' message comes up, I get a message NcFTP: could not get your password entry (9): bad file descripror. Why does it try to get a password entry? Isn't it anonymous FTP? And then I get an error: <whatever site I try>: gethostbyname error (2):hostname lookup failure. So, that's all the clues I have. I know the card is recognised during startup as a 3c5x9 at Ox300 and IRQ 10, which is what it is. Please tell me what to do, I am at the end of my wits. Ilya Tsymbal
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