Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:02:46 -0800 From: patl@asimov.lashley.slip.netcom.com To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 -vs- Elite EtherPower 32 PCI Message-ID: <9502222102.AA03362@lashley.slip.netcom.com>
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I have just put together a 486 system to run FreeBSD, and I'm having trouble getting it to talk to the LAN. I've been using/administering various flavors of unix for over 10 years now; but am new to FreeBSD and unix-on-a-PC. The current symptoms suggest that the problem is some simple bit of config file tweaking. (And probably something that will be -real- obvious, once it has been pointed out...) The boot sequence reports that it has found the board (an Elite EtherPower 32 PCI Combo), and attached de0. It properly selects the BNC connector. The ifconfig report looks good, and the LNK light on the board glows a steady green. But when I ping it from my SPARCstation, I get no response. (The T/R light does pulse yellow at about the rate I expect from 'ping -s'.) When I attempt to ping the SPARCstation from the BSD box, the T/R light doesn't light at all, and ping usually reports: Host is down. Sometimes it reports 'ping: sendto: No buffer space available'. # ifconfig de0 de0: flags=cc63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.0.2.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.0.2.255 Configuration: FreeBSD 2.0 (Walnut Creek January 1995 CD-ROM) ASUS PCI/I SP3G with 8M RAM and Cyrix 486DX2/66 Elite EtherPower 32 PCI Combo Ramtek VGA CDC Wren-IV (327M SCSI) Sun (Sony?) CD-ROM (SCSI) This matter is becoming somewhat urgent, and I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, -Pat
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