Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:38:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Alan M. Friedman" <alan@kether.intellint.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mail account <freebsd@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> Subject: Re: HELP!-Re: ifconfig MEDIA error..."media 10base2/BNC" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604223745.26356p-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v03007800b19c8400b7e6@[198.178.173.3]>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alan M. Friedman wrote: > Thanks! This worked and I was finally able to use > the 3com install program to set the config to TR:COAX from > autosense, but the problem wasn't solved, unfortunately. :-(( > > So now I have the 3com EtherLink III PCMCIA card set to > use BNC, and it is probed OK, but any ifconfig I do leaves > FreeBSD only able to do a localhost ping . . . all other > hosts on my LAN give "host is down" Check your routing. Now it sounds like you don't have a default route. > Sorry to take up so much bandwidth on this same > question, but assuming the system IS trying to use the BNC connection > on the EtherLink III, what other circumstances could cause this??? I don't mind at all. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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