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From: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@w3page.com>
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Narvi wrote:
> 
> > From: Blaine Minazzi <bminazzi@w3page.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:33:17 -0600
> > Subject: networking Linux <--> FreeBSD
> >
> > Congratulations to the FreeBSD crowd. You managed to reduce me to
> > a quivering mass of nerves.  After looking through the massive
> > ( lack ) of documentation :-(   , I have to do the one thing
> > all grown men hate to do the most. Ask for help...
> 
> Something I hear for the first time...
> 
> > Here is something that should be rather simple.
> > Connect a Linux and FreeBSD box using TCP/IP.
> > I have done this with Linux <--> Linux, but,
> > for the life of me, I cannot talk to the BSD machine.
> 
> Can you ping it? Can you ping the linux machine from FreeBSD? Can you
> connect from the FreeBSD machine? Can FreeBSD connect to other mchines?
> 
I can now...

Well, it WAS rather simple. Too simple.  I somehow recompiled the Linux
kernel with the wrong values for the Sound Driver. Conflicted with my
ethernet card. ( Industrial Strength Stupid... )

Recompile, everything as easy as I know it to be.


 
Sincerely,


Blaine Minazzi