Re: 1.3.2 is *very* impressive

[Chris Patti <feoh@wyn.fandom-house.org> writes:]

>This could be totally unrelated, but after booting VSTa and telling it about
>my NE2000 clone (CHEAP NE2000 clone, $50 :) my ethercard started blinking its
>red light regularly, as if there was an error condition. Of course the grungy
>vendor supplied software didn't help, but a power down , 2 min. wait, and
>restart fixed the problem.

The ne2000 driver no doubt could use some work. It was handed to me in
somewhat broken form, and I chased it just enough to get it talking to my
card and doing packets.

>Glad to hear you intend to include a sample KA9Q startup file in the next
>release. I was just pulling down the Ka9Q dist to try to divine what to do.

You can enter the command by hand as well. I use:

/vsta/boot/ne 0x300,5 & # Start the driver
mount net/ne /dev/eth # Add it to my namespace
net # Start ka9q
attach eth eth0 1500 # Start the networking interface
ip addr 198.92.29.53 # Set my node's IP address
route add default eth0 # Default route via ether
host baruk # My hostname
domain suffix cisco.com # Default suffix
domain addserver 131.108.1.111 # My DNS host of choice

After this you can telnet, FTP, and so forth. To save typing, put these all
in a file, and start the "net" command with the file as an argument.

                                                Regards,
                                                Andy
Received on Mon Oct 10 08:20:19 1994