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From: heller@akh104.rh.psu.edu (Andrew K. Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 3c509 problems in FreeBSD
Date: 12 Sep 1994 18:37:53 GMT
Organization: Penn-State Ghoull Labs
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Dick van den Burg (burg@vdb.knoware.nl) wrote:
: I tried to get my 3c509 ethernet card working with FreeBSD1.1.5.1
: I added 
: device ep0 at isa? port 0x200 net irq 10 vector epintr
: in my config file. The interface is recognized at startup.
: When I try to do a ping to another machine on the same network, I
: get no reply. tcpdump shows that an arp request goes out to get the
: ethernet address for the host I ping to. I see no replies.
: Sometimes I see routes added (routed is running) so it looks as though
: the card is connected to the network. Using EtherPeek ( a ethernet
: sniffer) I see nothing from my machine.
: I tried adding an arp entry for the host I try to ping, and then
: I see the ICMP request in tcpdump.


  um... do you have the router set up correctly?
how about the name server?

  check out ifconfig and make sure you are up and broadcasting..


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