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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to Network FreeBSD ?
Date: 24 Sep 1993 15:03:09 GMT
Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman  MT
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Message-ID: <27v27d$53l@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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In article <CDszqr.14u@newsserver.technet.sg>,
Hisao Mori <mori@solomon.technet.sg> wrote:
>I have successfully installed FreeBSD with binary distribution.
..
>I got the following in the startup
>	...
>	npx0 on isa
>	npx0: Errors reported via Exception 16.
>
>What is the last line?  Anything to do with my ethernet card ?

Nope, that is an informational message that informs the user how the FP
errors are being handled.  The message will probably change in a newer
version of FreeBSD due to the amount of folks who think it's an error
due to the wording.

>I tried to ping myself
>	ping 192.9.200.1
>and I got
>	ping 192.9.200.1
>	ping: sendto: No route to host
>	ping: wrote 192.9.200.1 64 chars, ret=-1

Have you checked your setup in /etc/netstart?  You need to tell the
system where you're located at, and enable the network card.



Nate


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