From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 15:18:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B15537B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from web41105.mail.yahoo.com (web41105.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0916543F13 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k_m34@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030112231826.23773.qmail@web41105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.171.34.93] by web41105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:26 PST Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Subject: IBM PC 750 & Linksys LNE100TX from OS X iBook network install success. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not a list subscriber, but I thought I 'd share a success I have had getting my Linksys LNE100TX (ADMtek AN985 based) NIC to work for sysinstall. I've read a few previous posts where people claimed that they had to install with a temporary NIC, configure a custom kernel, then reinstall their Linksys card for it to work. I've found that this is not so. Here's my basic setup: IBM PC 750 - P-100, 80MB RAM, 850MB IDE disk, Linksys LNE100TX NIC, SB16 ISA, CD-ROM. Apple iBook - G3-600, 640MB, 20GB, built-in NIC, good 24x CD-ROM. I tried to boot the PC off the FreeBSD 4.3 cd I have, but it was scratched from another (bad) cd drive so that was a no-go. Luckily the iBook reads the scratched cd perfectly, which I've already used to net-install an old IBM ThinkPad 360CE. I booted the PC from the standard floppies, bypassed the kernel config (the first mistake that everyone else made too, I'm sure) and began to setup the (O)ptions for the install. I selected DHCP, set my ftp user to one on the iBook, and proceeded to start a standard install. When it came time to configure the network card, the kernel spewed something akin to what is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#TRAP-12-PANIC I tried following the instructions for deciphering what was going wrong, but I seemed to get different addresses everytime I re-attempted the install. I'm sure this is what eveyone else would have run into as well. I did find that some of the addresses were found in the mii code, so I brainstormed that it might be a conflict in the network drivers. I began another re-install. I went into the kernel config this time and disabled ALL of the available network options. Suddenly things worked flawlessly and the NIC got configured (without a page fault) via DHCP from the iBook and happily began the install. Problem solved, and the NIC works just dandy for sysinstall. Another tip for those net-installing from an OS X Apple: use a standard user account for your ftp setting in sysinstall. When you set what FTP server to get the files from, specify ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx//Volumes/fbsdxx_1 as the server and directory. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the Mac, of course, and fbsdxx_1 is the first disk of your FreeBSD release CD. It made for an interesting install, almost as interesting as getting the old TP running. Jon. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message