From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 01:08:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2822C106566C for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:08:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from mail.vex.net (smaug.vex.net [208.76.104.132]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33258FC08 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:08:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca) Received: from [192.168.110.8] (unknown [207.35.13.79]) by mail.vex.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 867151709E for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:08:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <496A9800.40205@utoronto.ca> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:08:16 -0500 From: William Gordon Rutherdale User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14ubu (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4968EDAF.40108@utoronto.ca> <3a142e750901101153x66d0099dxa871dce07df32175@mail.gmail.com> <49694724.6090705@utoronto.ca> <20090111165235.GA62524@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <496A7E0F.4060301@utoronto.ca> <20090111234532.GA86733@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090111234532.GA86733@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:08:19 -0000 I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed to fail writing to the hard drive. I got this during installation: Progress Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... Message Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) /mtrt: write failed, filesystem is full. ------------- I think I allocated decent size partitions for /, /var, swap, /tmp, /usr. I made multiple attempts. Kept getting errors. I may just have to fall back on Ubuntu, just to get something running on this machine. -Will Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > >> Well isn't that just great. >> >> I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference. >> > > It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is > architecture independant. On amd64 I also had some troubles with re(4) > based cards, but I had an old xl(4) based card lying around, and with > the upgrade to 7.1 the age(4) chip on my mobo also became usable. So I > ditched the re(4) based card. > > > >> I just tried the FreeBSD 7.1 bootonly and the configure window at least >> listed the device, which is an improvement over before. Now if it only >> lists it but the driver doesn't work, then I still will have a >> communication problem where I can't easily get the correct file to the >> machine. >> > > The network configuration of sysinstall only shows devices that actually > show up in /dev/net. That means that the driver was at least able to > initialize the hardware. So chances are that it works. As I've mentioned > before I had upload speed troubles with re(4) based cards, but I don't > know if rl(4) based cards have/had the same problems. Copying large > files with nc(1) over a cross-cable link between two machines will > rapidly show you if you can max out the link. > > >> I'll just try installing 7.1 for now and see how it looks. >> > > That's probably the best solution. It is always best to upgrade to the > latest released version before asking questions about hardware support, > because updating is probably the first advice you'd get. > > >> Thanks for the heads up anyway. >> > > You're welcome. :-) > > Roland >