Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:51:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: fam Springer <springer@pi.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My 3Com Etherlink III ISA 3C509 Card Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970327124857.354j-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199703212009.VAA14230@mailhost.pi.net>
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, fam Springer wrote: > My name is Rink Springer, and I'm 13 years old. I am a member of The Young > Scientists (De Jonge Onderzoekers), Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Welcome aboard! > I bought FreeBSD a few weeks ago, and I have a BIG (...) problem. I have a > 3C509 Ethernet network card, and FreeBSD reconizes it perfectly. When I > boot FreeBSD using my arranged kernel, > FreeBSD says it has the Ethernet address is 0020AF2F46C0. According to the > installation program on the disk, 3C5X9CFG, the Ethernet address is > 00608C2F46C0. > As you see, there is a small difference between these results. When I load > ftpd, it > bombs out with the error "socket operation on non-socket". ftpd is run from inetd.conf, don't run it manually. > I tried to reload inetd, but it gives me a list of already used sockets, > and ftp is in that list. When I use netstat -i (or -a, I can't remember), > the number of packets on ep0, that's my 3C509 card, the number is always > incrementing. Can you please help me solving this problem? It should be incrementing, your system is talking to the rest of the world. A good acid test is telnet: can you connect to ther machines okay? I think the Ether addr reported by FreeBSD is right and the setup program is wrong. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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