Re: Network Configuration
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Jordi Inglada wrote:
> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp,
> telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use
> nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message "server
> <my nfs server> seems to be down or inexistent".
>
> I have configured the network, I have installed the drivers (my card is
> a DIGITAL depca), the card is found when rebooting at the correct
> address and interruption...
Ouch! Depca card, eh? A couple of things to check:
It's not enough for the card to be detected. It's also rather important
that any probing for other hardware doesn't interfere with the depca
card. So you probably won't get it to work with an installation kernel
which probes for everything everywhere.
The depca driver may also not work if you compile it as a module, so
when you compile your kernel, select it as built-in.
I hope that helps. Me, I'm replacing my depca cards with 3c509 ones.
Depcas worked with pathworks and with netbeui (just about), but they
freeze up with PC-NFS after a couple of minutes so I'm calling it a day
(as is the Open University).
--
David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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