Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:03:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trouble in installation w/ a 3C509b Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271152360.5227-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
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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
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