Re: Re: laptop, ethernet and networking

1996-11-22 Thread Karsten Bolding
About 10 minuttes after I send my mail concerning laptop, ethernet and networking I got the first respons (from Richard G. Roberto from Tokyo - which gives him a head start) (out around 10) and within half an hour and with a little help from the NET-2-HOWTO I was up and running.. (I confused

Re: laptop, ethernet and networking

1996-11-22 Thread Paul Christenson
On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Karsten Bolding wrote: > route add -net 130.226.66.83 > > with this result > > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ... because 130.226.66.83 is not a NETWORK address. Try using 130.226.66.0 instead. | This is OFFICIAL WRITTEN notification that I want to be REMOVED |

Re: laptop, ethernet and networking

1996-11-21 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Karsten Bolding writes: [ A correctly working ethernet card ] -> ifconfig reports eth0 is up -> -> route add -net 130.226.66.83 -> -> with this result -> -> SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument -> Thos should be "route add -net 130.226.66.0". route -net takes the network address to route to a

laptop, ethernet and networking

1996-11-21 Thread Karsten Bolding
I'm an amateur trying to configure a newly bought laptop to be connected to a net using a 3COM 3C589C card. The following is part of the boot message FDC 0 is an 8272A NCR53c406a: no available ports found eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still