Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:24:46 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Attempting to install 2.2 with Etherlink III Message-ID: <97Mar21.142457pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD-2.2 on a Pentium with NCR SCSI and a 3com 3c509B-C. After disabling the wt driver so that it didn't detect the 3com as a tape drive, the 3c509 probes as follows: 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on ISA ep0: aui/utp/bnc[*AUI*] address 00:20:af:4f:6b:88 Things looked like they were doing OK, until it tried to access the FTP server. It actually managed to do a little talking to the FTP server (it got the banner and one time it managed to send the USER message and get the response), but it always ends up saying: Couldn't open FTP connection to beta.xerox.com: Unknown error. Now, I know it's managing to send at least a few packets, since it resolves beta.xerox.com and it sometimes opens the TCP connection, but I can't ping it, implying that there's something hokey going on with the ethernet card. Is there anything special that I can do with the 3c509 to get it to work, or should I go out and find a real ethernet card? Is there any way to find out how the 3c509 is configured; I just got this machine handed to me without any real info and I wiped the Linux partition before I realized I might need the configuration info from it. My vague suspicion is that the IRQ is wrong. Thanks, Bill
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