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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:39:24 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 3Com E-net 
Message-ID:  <199504110039.RAA02114@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Apr 1995 21:52:52 EDT." <9504092152.AA22043@LL.MIT.EDU> 

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>Howdy,
>	I'm setting up FreeBSD for the first time and having a bit of 
>trouble getting my network card configured.  It's a 3Com 3C5x9 EISA
>card.  The initial generic kernel didn't find it at all, which is no 
>surprise because its IOADDR is not settable and it seems to have chosen
>0x4000 rather than 0x300.  So I built a new kernel with the new address
>in it and now the card is seen and can be configured (i.e. ifconfig no
>longer reports IOCTL errors).  However, the default route I specify
>in /etc/defaultrouter never gets loaded (this line in netstart fails 
>silently), nor can I set it by hand ("route add default xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa"
>fails with the error messages "writing to routing socket: file exists"
>and "add net default: gateway xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa: file exists")

If you are using the 10base-T or aui port on the card, you must add the
"link2" flag to ifconfig in /etc/hostname.ep0


>/etc/hostname.ep0:
>193.4.0.151 netmask 255.255.255.0 link2
				   ^^^^^
>I'm moderately BSD competent, but I'm pretty much stymied here.
>
>Eric
>

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Justin T. Gibbs
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