Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:36:18 +0700 From: pirat sriyotha <pirat@oaep.go.th> To: Tim Parkinson <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Horrible things, NIC's Message-ID: <19980620123618.B17388@oaep.go.th> In-Reply-To: <000a01bd99e6$357638f0$92194798@stimpy>; from Tim Parkinson on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:51:05PM %2B0100 References: <000a01bd99e6$357638f0$92194798@stimpy>
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hi, from my failure books, you must know what the factory setting of port number and interrupt number of your NE2000 card. you have to know, to get them by any means. then boot -cv and setting ed0 ( or ed1) to those two numbers. sure you have to edit /etc/rc.conf to set things up correctly before shutdown -r now. and hit dash see we, -cv, at boot prompt, boot: rgds, psr On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:51:05PM +0100, Tim Parkinson wrote: > Harumph, > > I just went out and bought a shiny new NE2000 compatible (read: cheap) to go > alongside the one in my FreeBSD gateway, and replace the 3Com 3c509 that had > been giving a bit of jip recently. I rolled up a nice new kernel, changed > the startup stuff in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted -Aaaagh, complete spasms. > Ifconfig refused to add the IP addresses and various other scary problems > related to that. Finally, I have ifconfig adding the IP's but still the > *naughty word-ing* thing is having problems. Grrr, I'm not happy. > > Note, this isn't a question. I just wanted to vent a little frustration at > being a newbie and not being able to work out what is wrong! > > Still, I guess this is the best way to learn, have something fall over and > have to get your hands dirty and fix it. > :( > > > ---------------------------------------------- > Tim Parkinson -Teaching Company Associate > Nottingham Trent University & Clerical Gas Ltd > Tel: 0115 9783677 Fax: 0115 9706977 > tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk > tim@gubbins.ml.org -Home > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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