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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: impossible to install 952010-SNAP Date: 31 Oct 1995 16:45:46 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <475jrq$fb4@helena.MT.net> References: <46nfmm$qnt@upsn6.u-psud.fr> <46r2rf$83g@overload.lbl.gov> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <46r2rf$83g@overload.lbl.gov>, Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote: >> After rebooting, I see: >> "lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 " >> What is lo0?, my ethercard is a WD8003E that works with previous >> FBSD. It's the loopback interface. This is used on all unix machines. >> Then, "myname.my.domain: bad value " and the result is diagnostics >> whith the installation of sendmail and ..... This is a problem with the installation stuff. >The problem is not depend on motherboards. Also, I guess it is not depneded on >ethercard or driver since you and I have different ethercard. The install stuff didn't write the correct information into /etc/hosts, and/or didn't write stuff into /etc/sysconfig. >Some network code could be broken. In my case, it finds my ethercard, but >configured the interface to nothing. Although, I can manually do ifconfig >after booting, the ethernet interface cannot see further than one hop. This stuff should be fixed in the latest SNAP. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.