Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:52:01 +0100 (BST) From: neil@netclub-lon.com (Neil Fowler Wright) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3Com Etherlink III 3C509 netstat -r rproblems Message-ID: <m0uoFaD-000JMZC@netclub-lon.com>
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Hi, I have got FreeBSD up and runnign successfully, but I cannot get it to talk to the Local Network. We have a P166 with an Adaptec SCSI Driver and a 3COM Etherlink III card. Origionally there was an IRQ collision between the two cards, but using the 3C905 Network Interface with an IRQ of 8 both now come up successfully. The system will come up and define the routing table, but it will not communicate across the Twisted-Pair connection to any other machines via the Hub. The hub will also not light up to say there is a valid link. The machine (kaneda) IP is 194.74.216.2 and the router (corpex-gw) has an IP of 194.74.216.254, which are both configured in the /etc/xxxconfigs together with the appropriate Netmask. The machine has to be successfully accessing the card, because netstat -r retruns valid data for the machines ethernet address. Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expiry default corpex-gw UGSc 9 0 ep0 localhost localhost UH 0 0 lo0 194.74.216 link=A32 UC 1 0 kaneda 0:a0:24:9d:70:8f UHLW 3 147 lo0 corpex-gw link=A32 UHLW 10 0 note initially (just after boot) the last line is as follows. corpex-gw link=A32 UH 10 0 ep0 1 but it expires to the above. I have several questions, but I would alos appreciate some general comments where this problem has been encountered before (as is evident on the Mailing List Archive), but I can see no fixes listed there.. What does UHLW mean in the above? What does link=A32 mean in the above? Do I NEED to change my network card? Is there a configuration in the kernel I can change that will solve the problem, or a patch, or have I missed a configuration setting. Note: The cable is fine, and the card is fine, when tested in another (Win95= ) machine. Many Thanks for any assistance you can give me. Neil
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