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- From: gedetil@mercury.cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux)
- Subject: Re: Beginner's question about CAP driving an ALW with an EtherTalk card
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <GROSSJOH.92Dec9200234@lucy.ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:06:11 GMT
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- In article <GROSSJOH.92Dec9200234@lucy.ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, grossjoh@lucy.ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai Grossjohann) writes:
- ...
- > Then it told me it would use NIT instead. Then I did a gen.make and executed
- > all of the make commands. After all that had been done I tried to run aarpd,
- > and what happened was:
- >
- > [cap/cap60]{69} bin/aarpd ie0 LS6
- > /dev/nit: Permission denied
- > 20:01:29 12/09/92 pi_open: aarp_init: Permission denied
- > init_enet: network initialization failed
- > [cap/cap60]{70} ll /dev/nit
- > crw------- 1 root 37, 40 Jan 11 1991 /dev/nit
- >
- > I also tried to do a chmod 777 /dev/nit, to no avail.
- >
- > Any ideas? --- advTHANKSance
-
- In addition to requiring the device node, /dev/nit, you have to make sure
- your kernel has the NIT driver support in it. Here's what it looks like in
- the GENERIC configuration file for SunOS 4.1.1 (/sys/sun4c/conf/GENERIC):
-
- #
- # The following are for streams NIT support. NIT is used by
- # etherfind, traffic, rarpd, and ndbootd. As a rule of thumb,
- # NIT is almost always needed on a server and almost never
- # needed on a diskless client.
- #
- pseudo-device snit # streams NIT
- pseudo-device pf # packet filter
- pseudo-device nbuf # NIT buffering module
-
- #
- # The following is for the "clone" device, used with streams devices.
- # This is required if you include streams NIT support, RFS, or an audio
- # device.
- #
- pseudo-device clone # clone device
-
- If your kernel configuration doesn't have these pseudo-devices included, add
- them, rebuild (config and make) your kernel, and reboot. Hope this helps.
-
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