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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Critical FTP Network Install Problem
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:25:36 +0200
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Ron Feigen <ronf1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>The 3com card required a bit of coaxing during boot to get it to respond 
>when probed.  I need to disable other devices at 0x300.  The intel card

This is a documented problem.

>seems a bit better.  However it did switch itself from having mapped memory
>to no mapped memory during a reboot.  But when configured as FreeeBSD expects
>(0x300, irq 10, mapped mem @ d000) it is recognized no problem.  BTW how much 
>memory should be mapped at d000 I had a choice of 16K or 32K (or no mapped 
>memory)?

Do you really say `d000', or rather `d0000'?

>I get a message about not being able to resolve the hostname and asked to 
>check my
>gateway/nameserver info.

Does a ping to a numerical IP address also fail?
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)