Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:52:26 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: trouble installing freebsd 2.1 on toshiba laptop Message-ID: <199607181852.OAA18222@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <9607181734.AA15447@bayonne.netapp.com> from Byron Rakitzis at "Jul 18, 96 10:34:49 am"
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Byron Rakitzis wrote... > Hi. > > I have a Toshiba 415CS laptop, and I am trying to bring up freebsd. The > laptop has a built-in 4x CDROM, which I assume is ATAPI. I also have a > 3COM 3c589 PCMCIA card and am prepared to do a network installation. > > When I boot either boot.flp or atapi.flp, freebsd finds no cdrom, and > no network card! > > The really frustrating part is that it prints something in the kernel > startup about ze0 and zp0, but it all flashes by too quickly for me to > make sense of it -- I am shoved into the fullscreen installer, and I > have lost the kernel startup lines! > > I started the kernel with -c, disabled everything except the IDE bus, > serial controllers, and the zp0 driver. However, the boot still did not > find the 3c589. For laughs, I tried again disabling zp0 and enabling > ze0, since it seems to find something (although I don't know what!) > with ze0. Still nothing. > > Any hints are appreciated, esp. if there is a boot flag I can pass so > that the install utility does not start straight off so that I can at > least see what is eating the zp driver. > > Many thanks, > > Byron Rakitzis. > I have the same machine, without the CD-ROM. In order to get the 3c589 to work you'll need to know its IRQ and memory settings. The driver disk that comes with it has a utility which will tell you what you need to know, but you'll have to boot in DOS to use it :-( I have the same card - mine uses IRQ 3 (!). Once you have the settings, boot the install floppy using -c and edit the zp0 device appropriately. Getting rid of ze0 isn't a bad idea... Once you've done that you should see zp0 in the network devices list. Regards, John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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