Re: (NEWBIE) Networking Problems

From: Brian A. Seklecki (lavalamp_at_spiritual-machines.org)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:24:41 -0400

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Eirik WS wrote:

> I installed NetBSD 1.5.3 on my 486 today. All went fine, it recognised my
> CD station, my NIC and my X works, but it can't seem to find the mouse.
>
> I have two questions:
> 1) It detected my NIC, a NE2000 compatible, but when I try to ping
> my other computer, I get this error:
> PING burk.heima (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
> Jun 13 16:54:21 /netbsd: ne1: device timeout

you need to find the appropriate MS-DOS config util for your NE2k vaient
and have the IRQ/DMA/Base addr vaules in the GENERIC kernel conf match up
with the card's config (and optionally match the "reserved reources" in
your CMOS/BIOS menu).

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC?rev=1.595&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

ne0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 9 # NE[12]000 ethernet cards
ne1 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10

ne* at pci? dev ? function ? # NE2000-compatible Ethernet
ne* at isapnp? # NE2000-compatible Ethernet

-~~lava

>
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
> ping: sendto: Host is down
>
> I have put this in /etc/ifconfig.ne1:
> inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> And I have added this to the end of /etc/rc.conf:
> auto_ifconfig=YES
>
> I have tried to route to the other computer:
> route add default 192.168.0.1
> route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 ne1
>
> It doesn't work. Please help me.
>

l8*
        -lava

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