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- From: dpletche@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Pletcher)
- Subject: [386BSD] getting the network running
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.200526.366@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:05:26 GMT
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- I've just installed 386BSD on an AGI 3000D 386 machine. Most things
- seem to work now, but there are a few problems I need to solve. Most
- of the boot time configuration is shown and described below.
-
- 1) On boot, my 3com 3c503 ethernet board is recognized, but I haven't
- figured out how to get my system to talk to the outside world. I've
- tried modifying /etc/networks, /etc/netstart and /etc/hosts. I put
- our router address (with a made up name; I don't know what it is
- called) in /etc/networks. I uncommented the ec0 ifconfig line in
- /etc/netstart and added in the actual address at some point. I put my
- host name and number in /etc/hosts. Could someone tell me exactly
- what I need to do to configure the network? (Incidentally, the board
- is definitely not talking to the outside world; when I try to telnet
- no packets ever go out and it eventually times out. I can telnet to
- my own host number of course.) Incidentally: nslookup still tells me
- on startup that my host number is 0.0.0.0.
-
- 2) When booting from the hard drive, 90% of the time the system
- freezes the first time it tries to read from the hard drive (before it
- ever boots). This problem does not occur when booting the MSDOS
- partition. Randomly pressing keys during the startup diagnostics may
- or may not be helpful in getting 386BSD to boot successfully...
-
- 3) When the system actually boots from the hard drive, the top floppy
- never turns off after the system checks to see if it contains a boot
- disk; any attempt to talk to either floppy crashes the system. This
- problem does not occur when I boot 386BSD from the floppy of course.
-
- Here is the system info:
- Some generic VGA card, 200 meg quantum PD210A HD with noname
- controller (whatever that is)--floppies plugged into noname card,
- Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller with SHARP JY700 5.12 optical drive,
- 3com 3c503 ethernet board. I've disabled the Adaptec BIOS and
- switched its unused floppy controller to the secondary address.
- Here's what it says at boot time, minus some stuff that scrolled
- off the top:
-
- wd0 <QUANTUM PD210A> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
- as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
- ec0 address 02:60:8c:3d:b0:cf at 0x250 irq 9 on isa
- npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa
- as0: attached tgt 0 <SHARP JY700 MODC 5.12> disk
- as0b: not ready reading fsbn 0
- (etc)
-
- Please ask me if there's any other information that might be useful in
- diagnosing the problem.
-
- Thanks for any help,
- David Pletcher
- dpletche@jarthur.claremont.edu
-