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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: networking problems
Date: 2 Apr 1997 15:05:16 GMT
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In article <33417332.3253357@news.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
aunrau@rrcc.mb.ca writes:
> Hello.
>
> I am working with FreeBSD 2.1.6. After installing, I am having some
> networking problems. I try to ping a host on my network, and I am
> getting an error message - "no route to host".
>
> Is this a symptom of a mis-configured network card? I have a 3Com
> 3C90X. In the Userconfig utility, I saw no mention of this card - only
> the 3C50X. Are these cards alike enough to operate with the same
> driver?
What do "dmesg" and "netstat -rn" say ?
> Is there any way of starting up the Userconfig utility than entering
> -c at the boot prompt?
Nope.
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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