Subject: Re: Configuring my Ethernet card.
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Shrike <shrike@televar.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/26/1997 16:32:06
Thanks for the info.  We got *this* part working, can now telnet, etc.

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> Shrike writes:
> > Just got NetBSD installed on my PC here at work, and am wondering how I
> > would go about configuring my 3Com Ethernet card?
> > 
> > I read the Install document and tried:
> > 
> > ifconfig ep0 <myIPaddress> netmask 0xffffff00
> > 
> > It tells me SIOCGIFFLAGS: Device not configured
> 
> In all likelyhood, during bootup, the kernel did not successfully
> probe an ep0.
> 
> Go through your boot messages (try "dmesg") and look for the ep0
> device. If it isn't there, it means your kernel didn't find it.
> 
> There can be several reasons that this happened, but typically it is
> because the device isn't at the I/O ports and/or addresses and/or IRQ
> expected by the probe.
> 
> Perry
> 

      Keep passing open windows....
                          
                           --- Harlan Ellison

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