Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
 ifconfig -m reports for ep0, not the card name, that this networking device
is properly configured. Me I'm confused. On Micro$oft'$ world you think of
device names, and software, here on NetBSD, and FreeBSD, and Linux, you
think of device aliases, and names, and software. I need a translator for
this. And C3-P0 doesn't work with this OS.
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Gregg C Levine mailto:hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
"Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait." Obi-Wan Kenobi
"The Force will be with you. Always. " Obi-Wan Kenobi
"May the Force be with you." "And to you" Anonymous

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-net-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-net-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Gregg C Levine
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:38 PM
> To: der Mouse
> Cc: tech-net
> Subject: RE: Networking support for NetBSD
>
>
> Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
> ifconfig -m reports this message, SIOCGIFFLAGS 3c509b: device not
> configured, and this is preposterous because the network is being
> initialized according to the messages that the boot process
> prints out. When
> I configured it, using the whole process that I used to install the
> software, the boot disk, everything went okay. And I will take
> your word for
> it, friend, that AUI is a supported part of NetBSD. It better,
> the original
> animal is still running over in Berkeley. That is, thicknet, which is AUI
> attached, and based, is being used there, and the OS got started there.
> --
> Gregg C Levine mailto:hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
> "Use the Force, Luke." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Trust in the Force, Luke, and wait." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "The Force will be with you. Always. " Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "May the Force be with you." "And to you" Anonymous
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-net-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:tech-net-owner@netbsd.org]On
> > Behalf Of der Mouse
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:18 PM
> > To: Gregg C Levine
> > Cc: tech-net@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Networking support for NetBSD
> >
> >
> > > I realize that this is possibly a stupid question, but here goes: Is
> > > there a list of networking standards, that are not supported by
> > > NetBSD?
> >
> > Unlikely.
> >
> > > Obviously Ethernet _is_ one of the supported ones.  But I have a
> > > combo version of a 3COM 3C509B card, and one of those connectors is
> > > an AUI type of connector.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're saying - I'm not sure what the problem is.
> > Are you saying NetBSD doesn't support AUI?  (If so, that's definitely
> > false; I use it daily.)  But really, support for AUI - or much of
> > Ethernet, for that matter - is more a matter of the hardware than the
> > software; it's a matter for software only when the hardware is capable
> > of it but does so only when explicitly told to by the software.  Such
> > hardware exists, and some of it is supported by NetBSD; there doubtless
> > exists other hardware with the capability that NetBSD does not support.
> >
> > As for your 3c509b, you may have to explicitly set the media type; what
> > does ifconfig -m report for it?
> >
> > 					der Mouse
> >
> > 			       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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