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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