Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:49:30 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SOLVED! (was: How do I fix the ethernet card I/O address (?)) Message-ID: <25758.874010970@monkeys.com>
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Thanks to all who responded to my plea for help regarding my ethernet card configuration woes. The answers were certainly enlightening and will be helpful to me in the future I'm sure. I'm a bit ashamed to say this (because of all of the good and helpful responses I got) but... well... you know how it is. When you are just getting started with a new OS, and you are not yet sure what to expect as far as help from the net is concerned, if you are in a hurry (as I am) you kinda tend to send out questions, and then hope for some responses, but in parallel, you try your best to struggle along even in lieu of any outside help (which may perhaps not be forthcoming). So that's what I did. Bozo that I am, it didn't occur to me until _after_ I sent out my earlier query that maybe the simple solution to my problem was just to change the card address to match the OS address, rather than vise versa (DUH!) Of course this entailed having to rummage around and try to find the *&^%# configuration disk for the ethernet card, and then (also) booting up DOS (yecch) from floppy again, and then diddling the card addess in the DOS-based card configuration setup program, and then praying... but it did work. But I don't want any of you to think that your helpful hints have been wasted on me. I appreciate them all and I sure as heck know about the -c boot option now! :-) So anyway, I _do_ want to thank everybody who wrote me back. Thanks a lot. I also wanted to say how impressed I am at the _level_ of help that seems to be available for this OS. I mean really. I posted a kinda dumb question to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, and within an hour I get back no less than _8_ helpful responses, not a single one of which is either condescending, or insulting, or flaming in the slightest. I can only conclude that you folks must really still be in the mode where you are trying to sign up converts to your OS, and that you are doing a good job of it. I mean heck! Bill Gates CHARGES MONEY for support that isn't 1/10th as good as this! In short, I am impressed. (Now if you could just make it impossible for boneheads like me to screw up their ethernet card configurations, I'd be _really_ impressed. :-) P.S. I have the network connection out of this box up and limping now, but I still have a bit of configuration work to do. (At least I can ping it!) After getting the I/O address or the card fixed, I ran into some more minor snags, but I'm managing so far to sort those out for myself. I don't know how, but somehow I managed to end up with support for the `lp0' (parallel port IP) device configured but no support for the `ed0' device... a situation which I managed to remedy by manually editing /etc/rc.conf... although I'm still getting `lp0' ifconfig'd for some reason. Is it a well-known problem that in the 2.2.2 release, the comments that end up in the /etc/rc.conf file are all screwed up? I've manually edited down a bunch of them so they look normal, but I guess that I really ought to just sed them all to fix them all in one go. -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) demo: http://monkeys.com/cgi-bin/wpoison
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