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From: dunlap@bigboote.csd.sgi.com (D. Christopher Dunlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: dog on IRIS 3130
Summary: Oh, yeah... wrong kernel or wrong dog, take your pick
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Date: 14 Jul 89 02:17:39 GMT
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In article <2489@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, currier@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov (Jeffrey M. Currier) writes:
> We have two IRIS 3130's and we used to be able to fly 
> air to air combat with the dog demo program.  We used to have
> to use the 3000.xns kernel, but now with whatever kernel it try
> I get the error message:
> 
> "Ethernet init failed"
> 
> Does anyone know what the solution might be.  Thanks in advance.
> 
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The "dog" program you're running is the xns version. The kernel you're
running isn't.

You might use the "kernels" command to see what kernel you're using
and change to the xns version, or even better, get the TCP version 
of dog. (Anyone remember how folks can get copies of that?)


later,

chris



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