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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:39:03 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New problem with netboot (diskless) 3c509 10Base2
Message-ID:  <199601180209.MAA04671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91ska.960117212708.13094A-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi> from "Seppo Kallio" at Jan 17, 96 09:38:05 pm

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Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying:
> 
> 
> I have a strange problem: We have some 486 micros in a classroom. They 
> had SMC Ethernet BNC cards and netboot did work fine.
> 
> Now someone did change Etherlink III cards and 10Base cable. 
> 
> Now nb3c509 cannot connect, it rotates |\-/| after "Finding server" (or 
> something like that), I think it is waiting answer from bootpd, it cannot 
> get its ip address. The DOS+Novel works fine on same micros. nb3c509 get 

You'll have to update the bootptab to reflect the new Ethernet addresses
of the new cards.

> Seppo

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