Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:09:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble in installation w/ a 3C509b Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908270908290.12993-100000@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271152360.5227-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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First thing to try, is pnp os turned off in bios? I have a couple of those working in bsd boxes, I believe they use irq 10 by default, you may want to set that to isa/legacy in bios, if you can. Bri On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently moved to a new job and in one of my offices (I have 2!) they > left a sad, cast off P5/100 machine, connected by DHCP through a 3Com > 3C509b NIC, to the campus network. The machine is currently running > windows and I have all the info from running winipcfg for the various > network #s I'll need upon installation. The NIC is now currently in PnP > mode, although I've also tried installation with it off. > > With PnP set to on for the NIC, upon boot w/ the installation floppies I > see that there are 2 PnP cards detected on the machine during boot - one > is the sound card and one the NIC. Although it detects the during the PnP > portion of the boot process, it does _not_ actually detect the NIC when > loading the kernel. I purposefully did nothing in the boot config to the > network section, so the driver should be loaded. No NIC, no install. :-( > > I then went and downloaded the EtherDisk software from 3Com and turned PnP > off on the NIC, hoping that that would clear things up. I rebooted w/ the > install floppies and sure enough the NIC isn't found in PnP (so PnP really > is set to off on the NIC), but again the NIC is not detected when booting > into sysinstall. :-( > > Does anyone have any idea how to get the NIC to be seen so I can install > by ftp? I had a 3.2 set of CD-ROMs but they're still w/ my girlfriend > across the country so that's out. The only set of CDs I have here is > 2.1.7 which is a _tiny_ bit old. :-) > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > ***************************************************** > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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