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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 Install/Networking
Date: 08 Feb 1994 01:20:05 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: kshobaki@muddcs.claremont.edu's message of 5 Feb 1994 06:14:11 GMT


In article <2ivdfj$hin@jaws.cs.hmc.edu> kshobaki@muddcs.claremont.edu
(weasel) writes:

   My new PC [486-66 high end system] for which I sold my beloved
   Amiga 3000 will be arriving within the next 2 weeks.

   I have been researching UNIX on the PC for around half a year.
   (this prompted the change in platforms) [...]

You should have kept the Amiga.  NetBSD runs on it, and it's a better
machine.  B-)

   [...], I could not get the networking to function.

Is the network card configured at one of the default addresses in the
distributed kernels?  Do you *know* how it is configured?