Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:03:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: networking: ed0 timeout Message-ID: <199604150233.MAA15055@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960414121650.21486A-100000@becker1.u.washington.edu> from "John Utz" at Apr 14, 96 12:32:58 pm
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John Utz stands accused of saying: > > So ed0 returns the address now and all that happy stuff. I do, > however, keep getting timeout messages when i boot the machine, and when i > shut down, I assume they are getting issued all the time, but that they > are just masked out from the console, since i dont login as root. > > Why is this happening? how can i fix this? Either 1) you're not talking to the wire (bad cabling, wrong media type selected), or 2) you have the interrupt values wrong. > Ultimately, i would like to be able to visit the /dos partition of > this machine from my win31 machine . What do folks use for this? can u run > the windows apps found on that disk on the second machine? Use 'samba' out of the ports collection. Running windows applications that haven't been explicitly installed on a system is a totally pot-luck thing - some will work, some won't, and some will "sort of" work. > when i boot. I understand that samba is not suitable for this, since i > have neither lanman or wfw or w95. The lanman client is freely available from ftp.microsoft.com, and you're only fooling yourself if you think you can network safely with win31. > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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