Openstep and NE2000 NIC Getting it to work

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videofx

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Well I have Openstep 4.2 with patch 4 working with vesa and Openstep looks great!

I installed the NE2000 driver successfully, but no matter wht settings I use in hostconfig it doesnt work.

I have my NIC set in my parallels config set to E01 Wireless, my network is DHCP, address range is 192.168.0.100 to 110, router is 192.168.0.1

What do I need to do to get this to work?

Thanks for any help! Everything else works great!!!!!!

Bill
 
Hi videofx,

I have the same problem (other thread here). Did you find a solution yet?

Thanks
Björn
 
Possible solution

Openstep does not handle DHCP out of the box. I've seen reference to a package that will allow it. But I've never looked for it or tried it.

However, all you really need is to tell Openstep what its IP is and how to get to the name server.

You can do this by putting into the /etc/hostconfig file:
HOSTNAME=myhostname
INETADDR=192.168.0.10
ROUTER=192.168.0.1
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0

and putting in the /etc/resolv.conf file (create it if it doesn't exist):
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

You can choose a host name. You should use an INETADDR that is OUTSIDE the DHCP served range and is not otherwise used on your network to avoid conflicts. and you can look in System Preferences under network to see the IP number of a DNS (name) server as it is served by your DHCP server. You can put more than one nameserver line in /etc/resolv.conf as well as specify the domain if you wish (thus making your machine myhostname@domainname).

You'll need to restart Openstep after setting this up in order for it to gain proper internet connectivity.

Type 'man resolver' and 'man 5 resolver' into the terminal application to see the documentation describing /etc/resolv.conf.
 
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