Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 02:54:18 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 Major problems after fresh installation Message-ID: <Sea1-F34PhuQinOkrx800003511@hotmail.com>
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> >On Wed, 7 May 2003 10:19:23 "Eddy Ramos" <e.ramos@deepground.com> wrote: > > >Hi there, >I have used some Linux (Redhat, Suse) and UNIX (SCO) before, but I am >relatively new to FreeBSD. >I have 2 major problems after installing FreeBSD 4.8 on a PIII 866Mhz >system (256 MB RAM). > >These are my problems, starting with the most important: > >1) Can't get the network cards to work properly. I see something like >'couldn't map ports/memory' during startup. >The machine is meant to be used as a router, so it has two network >cards: > 1. 3Com 3C905B-TX (uses IRQ 9 in Windows). I know this card is >supported by FreeBSD (xl driver according to hardware list) > 2. Realtek RTL8139 (uses IRX 10 in Windows). I know this card is >supported by FreeBSD (rl driver according to hardware list) > >When I use /stand/sysinstall -> Configure -> Networking -> Interfaces I >only see the parallel port (lp0) and the COM1 and COM2 devices. >Furthermore I see 'faith0 <unknown network interface type>' that's it. >Please have a look at the messages and the ifconfig output in order to >see what is going wrong. > > >2) Xwindows (and KDE window manager) won't run. >I have an Iiyama Vision Master monitor and an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX card >(nv driver according to hardware list) > > 1. Yes, I have installed the X wrapper (installed as a >dependency by default); > 2. Yes, I have a raised security level (Raising kernel security >level: kern.securelevel: -1 -> 2); > 3. Yes, I have tried to 'startx' both as a user and as root; > 4. Yes, I have tried both the 'xf86config' and the 'xf86cfg >-textmode' tool to create the config file. > >Please have a look at the log files in order to see what is going wrong. > >Could anyone help me sorting this out? >Thanks anyway, >Eddy. Hi Eddy, Don't know how much it helps you, but I can tell you I've used those three dev.s/drivers in my computer for sometime with no error. (An incompatability between bsd and your bios seems likely.) About running X with raised security levels. (I'll assume you already know of the mem. access problems here.) You could try the aperture workaround by Thomas Moestl. You can get sources at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/patches/ . (I'm not sure which diff you want, or either of them applies to your version, or even if it's already been integrated, but it's there.) You can get some background info from the readme at http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/README.aperture . Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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