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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 18:02:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: freebsd landslide.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971024180034.2244A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.971024092749.8581D-100000@cedb>

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Also, if you miss the probe messages, you can always look back by either
hitting "scroll-lock" and using the page-up/page-down keys or by just
typing "dmesg" and piping it through more.  At least this will help you
determine if the card was initialized or not.

Charles

On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Dan Busarow wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net wrote:
> > But every time the machine boots up, it returns an error of: gateway
> > 208.128.192.225 network is unreachable.  What causes this?  Does it mean
> > that the ethernet card is still not seen?  I am unable to telnet or
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> It means either the ethernet card configuration is not really set to
> 10/300 or that it has not been configured with the correct IP address
> and netmask.  Or it could just mean you have a defective NIC.
> 
> Reboot with the -c option again.
> At the > prompt enter "visual" to get the full screen configuration
> utility.
> Double check ed0 and make certain that it is set to irq 10 io 300.
> The kernel will probe and detect it regardless of the irq setting
> as long as the io is at 300, so having the card show as detected
> during boot does not mean that the kernel is looking for it at irq 10.
> 
> If that's OK then the problem is either in rc.conf or a bad nic or
> other hardware.  Here's a snippet from rc.conf with the settings
> you want:
> 
> 
> ##############################################################
> ###  Network configuration sub-section  ######################
> ##############################################################
> 
> ### Basic network options: ###
> hostname="twcmedia.dcoisp.net"	# Set this!
> nisdomainname="NO"		# Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO).
> firewall="NO"			# Set to firewall type or NO for none.
> tcp_extensions="YES"		# Allow RFC1323 & RFC1544 extensions (or NO).
> network_interfaces="lo0 ed0"	# List of network interfaces (lo0 is loopback).
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"	# default loopback device configuration.
> ifconfig_ed0="inet 208.128.192.241 -netmask 255.255.255.224"
> 
> [ lots snipped ]
> 
> ### Network routing options: ###
> defaultrouter="208.128.192.225"		# Set to default gateway (or NO).
> static_routes=""		# Set to static route list (or leave empty).
> gateway_enable="NO"		# Set to YES if this host will be a gateway.
> router_enable="NO"		# Set to YES to enable a routing daemon.
> router="routed"			# Name of routing daemon to use if enabled.
> router_flags="-q"		# Flags for routing daemon.
> mrouted_enable="NO"		# Do multicast routing (see /etc/mrouted.conf)
> ipxgateway_enable="NO"		# Set to YES to enable IPX routing.
> ipxrouted_enable="NO"		# Set to YES to run the IPX routing daemon.
> ipxrouted_flags=""		# Flags for IPX routing daemon.
> arpproxy_all=""			# obsolete kernel option ARP_PROXY_ALL equiv.
> 
> Dan
> -- 
>  Dan Busarow                                                  714 443 4172
>  DPC Systems / Beach.Net                                    dan@dpcsys.com
>  Dana Point, California  83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4   8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
> 




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