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From: John Campbell <jcampbel@lynn.ci-n.com>
Organization: Campbell Industries
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	I've got an old Zenith Z-200 (286-8, 1.5M RAM, 20M + 30M MFM drives...
a real screamer) that I'm trying to turn into a Minix box. I've gotten
Minix 2.0.0 installed and working on it, except for one problem... I
can't get the network to work. I enabled inet in the kernel config and
recompiled, and it now appears to start the inet server at boot, but it
doesn't seem to be finding the Ethernet card... it waits for a bit at
boot-time, then gives up and assigns itself the 192.9.200.1 address.
Using ifconfig to manually set it to the 10.0.0.7 it should be using
doesn't help, and hostaddr -e reports 0:0:0:0:0:0 for the MAC address. 

	I've tried it with three different ISA NE2000 compatibles (including
one honest-to-god Novell Eagle 2000) with no luck. All the cards work
fine in DOS on the same machine. What am I missing? Is there something
else I need to do to it? Do I need to tell it somewhere what the IO/IRQ
for the card is? Even telling me where to find TFM I should R would
help...

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John Campbell
jcampbel@lynn.ci-n.com
