On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:25:29PM +0000, DA Forsyth wrote: > hiya > > I'm in the prcess of setting up a FreeBSD machine in order to replace > an existing Novell 3.12 server. > > I thought I could use 'ncplib' to connect to the Novell server and in > this way transfer the data directly. > > fat chance > I get a series of 'flag 12' kernel panics and it reboots itself. > this happens instantly when I try a 'ncplogin' but can also happen > spontaneously. > > To get to this point I > compiled IPX into the kernel > setup /boot/loader.conf to load the if_ef, nfs, and ncp modules > put an infonfig line in /etc/rc.conf to setup the ipx protocol on the > network card. > > all that appear to be happy with life, unless I try to USE it. >-: > > now, I thought I'd install the port (I was just using what installed > when I installed FreebSD5.2.1-R fro CD last week) but none of the > mirrors have the file ncplib-1.3.4.tar.gz
I've just been able to fetch the tarball from here: ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/nwlib/ncplib-1.3.4.tar.gz Fetch it manually, put it in /usr/ports/distfiles and you should be away. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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