Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:53:31 +1100 (EST) From: eodyna <eodyna@yahoo.com.au> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a little trouble with 5.2.1 Message-ID: <20041105035331.14115.qmail@web41709.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <418AF5A1.1010704@marcuscom.com>
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Hi Joe, thanks for that, ill try 5.3. Hopefully i wont get as many problems. --ams Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 eodyna wrote: | hi there, | | Work Recently purchased a dell optiplex gx280. They come with a Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller and a 40g WD sata drive. When i installed 5.2.1 it complained that the disk geometey was incorrect(77504/16/63). I tried changing it to the correct (4863/255/63)setting by pressing (G) at the fdisk configuration screen, and the value 4863/255/63 was already entered in the pop up box. i saved it, and proceed with the rest of the install. At the network screen, it wasn't able to detect the network card. I was able to find that some people were able to get a 57xx working on their freebsd machine. | There are a few other areas with "no driver attached" such as disply and audio, but i haven't looked into those of yet. | After the installation completed i ran dmesg and the disk geometry didn't change to the new settings. Did i do something wrong with that? | | Can anyone pointack the me in the right direction on how to get this sorted? Any reccomendations would be great. I just bought a GX280, and installed 5.3-RC on it. It works great once you get passed the USB keyboard problem (see posts on freebsd-current@). ~ The bge network interface works great. I don't think the PCI IDs were added into 5.2.1, so you'll either have to backport the 5.3 bge driver, or just go with 5.3. Joe | | my thanks | ams | | ps: if you can cc me when responding id appreciate it as im not on the list. | | | | --------------------------------- | Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" | - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBivWhb2iPiv4Uz4cRAp4rAJ9GStMmsTu82ChT2MntobGFRTPq7QCfdgVy vyhiwdJoEuX0a+11gvSkDzM= =5yPy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------- Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.
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