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#! rnews 1726 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.71.0.48!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mem.net!usenet From: Ken <welk@mem.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Network not running problem Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:20:51 -0600 Organization: Synapse Internet Connections Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32FF2D55.2CDD@mem.net> Reply-To: welk@mem.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn024.tc-1.mem.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35273 All, I'm a newbie to FreeBSD and seem to have a networking problem. The box has an ethernet card in it (which worked fine with Netware prior to conversion of the system to FreeBSD). As the system boots, a message appears appears to the effect "Device lnc0 initialisation failure." Immediately thereafter, the device line appears showing lnc0 is up and appropriately showing the assigned IP, netmask, and broadcast addresses. As an initial test of the network, attempt to ping another machine on the ethernet network results in FreeBSD reporting that the network is not running. I see no sign that the network adaper is attempting to transmit, either. When trying the reverse, attempting to ping the FreeBSD machine from a client, I get a timeout message. Also, during this process the ethernet card in the FreeBSD machine is obviously being hit with packets, since it's lcd flashes. Both pinging the loopback device and the ethernet device (lnc0) from the FreeBSD machine itself works fine. Am I overlooking something? What is the best guess as to the problem? Thanks. Ken