Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:27:34 -0700 From: "Paul Fu, Jr." <quark@pacbell.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with installation Message-ID: <p04330104b5e38b36d8bd@[199.26.222.3]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000912002802.9658C-100000@utah> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000912002802.9658C-100000@utah>
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Thanks for the rapid response. The problem is that it freezes after the pci0 declarations and the OS doesn't complete installation. Is there a way around this? Thanks. Paul At 12:34 AM -0700 9/12/00, Jason C. Wells wrote: >On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Paul Fu, Jr. wrote: > >> I get 8 conflicts, 7 of which are in the networking section. I have a >> Netgear FA311 10/100 NIC and this is not one of the selections that >> are listed. If I delete all of the NIC configurations and then >> continue, I go into the device probing section where it promptly >> freezes after displaying: >> >> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x100b, dev=0x0020) at 10.0 irq 10 >> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1988) at 11.0 irq 12 >> >> I've tried to pick one of the network cards that are listed and hard >> configure the IRQ and port, but get the same problem. IRQ 10 is the >> NIC. IRQ 12, strangely enough, looks like my mouse (plugged into >> serial port). > >That stuff in visual config is all ISA cards, IIRC. Unless someone >corrects me, don't worry about that too much. As long as the install gets >going, none of that visual user config stuff is "set in stone." > >You might try looking at the website under "supported configurations" to >see if your card is listed. It is possbile that your card is supported by >the system but not in the GENERIC kernel that is on the boot floppy. > >Since you have a CDROM, don't worry about the network hardware config >until you get the OS installed. Once you get the OS installed, you might >be able to get the device support you need by building a custom kernel. > >(Mind you these are just things to think about. I did not check to see if >your card is supported.) > >Thank you, >Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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