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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!pc_100.psychol.utas.edu.au!peter From: peter@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au (Peter R. Tattam) Subject: NE driver problem, first time user. Message-ID: <peter.486.733460436@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au> Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au Organization: Psychology Department, University of Tasmania Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 03:00:41 GMT Lines: 31 Hi. Please pardon my ignorance with some of these questions, and excuse me if I posted to the wrong group. Just installed 0.1 base system. No patches yet. I looked in the FAQ and the buglist, but it didn't help me with my problem. I booted the floppy ok, but when I did an 'ifconfig' of the ne0 network driver, I kept getting some kind of debug message all the time when packets were received. OK, I thought to myself, must be something they forgot about... the card seems to work ok... I can live with that until I get the main installation finished. Well, I ftped the bindist stuff and went through the install process. I seemed to install properly, but the same problem was there when I booted up the main system. I also tried to turn the debug off, but to no avail. Now I find it unlikely that someone would release a driver in that state still, so what's my problem? I don't have enough space to rebuild the kernel.. I only installed it on an 80Mb partition on my 200M hard drive. It is my understanding that I need a full distribution to apply the patch kits. Am I correct here? If so, I am stuck until I get a larger disk to apply the patches. Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.Tattam International Phone 61-02-202346 Programmer, Psychology Department Australia Phone 002-202346 University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------------