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From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Trouble getting cable connection working
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:50:34 +0100
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"Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> wrote:

>	Well I think I typed it in wrong earlier.  I had
>
>ifconfig_al0=3D"DHCP"
>
>	in rc.conf.  I added your suggestion and I still am not getting a
>MAC address for this card.  I ran the DOS diag on it and the MAC is=20
>00:03:6D:15:C4:ED.  For some reason, BSD is not getting this info.  I =
think
>this may be why the card is not working.  I did get this error a few =
times
>before adding the line for the loopback.
>
>Jun  8 21:07:39 scarlet /kernel: arp: 00:50:e4:80:28:2a is using my IP
>address 0.0.0.0!
>
>	as well as
>
>Jun  8 21:48:12 scarlet /kernel: arp: 00:30:65:4c:1f:52 is using my IP
>address 0.0.0.0!
>
>	I have no idea what these other MAC addresses are.  I go from the
>ethernet card, to the cable modem.  The cable modem may have a MAC but =
why
>would I get two different MAC's in these errors.  Should I take back =
this
>NIC and get a different one?  Any suggestions?  I only paid 25$ for this
>one and would like to get it to work.

Might be worth trying a reboot from cold straight into FreeBSD.  I read
somewhere that some drivers (vr I think) have problems similar to yours
when dual booting with windows.

Just a thought
John.

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