Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:44:45 -0400 (EDT) From: William Denton <buff@pobox.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Beginning questions about PAO and things not working Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9905182236340.8880-100000@vex.net>
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Hi, I acquired a NEC Versa 2000D (a 486 with 20 megs of RAM) a little while and decided to put FreeBSD on it. I've been using Linux for about four years now but am getting disenchanted with it. All my cow orkers used FreeBSD, so I installed it on my machine there and I think it's great. I wanted to get it on this laptop, too. So, I downloaded the latest PAO install floppies (3.1-RELEASE) from the Japanese site and booted up with them. It recognized my 3Com Megahertz 3C589E (3CXE589ET, actually, an X-Jack thing) just fine and I was able to get everything in place. However, when I rebooted into the normal system, I couldn't get the ethernet card to pass packets. I could ifconfig it, add routes and ping it, but I couldn't ping past it. I couldn't figure out why not and neither could a couple of other people at work. I decided to bring the thing home and see if I could get the system updated by regular modem. It wouldn't recognize my modem card, but that's because sio3 isn't configured in the kernel. I hooked up a regular modem to the serial port and cvsupped the latest ports and source. However, a make buildworld fails and I can't compile a new (old) kernel, either. buildworld dies while making kdump (warnings and errors about redefinitions and undeclared identifiers), and the kernel dies on ioconf.c with a complaint about IO_YEFDC. Now, when I did the install, I pulled down the latest 3.1-STABLE from an FTP site. My two PCMCIA cards are both supported by regular FreeBSD, as far as I know, so I don't seem to need PAO. I'm running the PAO kernel right now, but that's because I haven't been able to do my own. Should I have installed the 3.1-RELEASE source? Did I mix up some things that shouldn't be mixed? I don't mind doing a reinstall, whether on the LAN at work or over an external modem at home. If that'd be the best thing to do, please say so. Or, if you can see something obviously wrong with how I've done things so far, I'd love to hear it. I'm a little confused about how PAO relates, whether I really need it, and so on. I poked through the last year or so of archives and couldn't figure this out from the PAO talk I saw. Bill -- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.vex.net/~buff/ : Caveat lector. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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