Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 08:33:09 -0500 From: Jason Craig <freebsd@pipe-piling.com> To: garman@phs.k12.ar.us Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970120083308.009066e0@204.181.8.193>
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Hello Jason, Thanks for responding. I am pretty new at running FreeBSD, and had a few problems. >> I have tried an Intel EtherExpress card, and a Magitronic NE2000 compatible >> card in this machine, but neither seem to work. I have tried various IRQ's >> and IO addresses (200h & IRQ5) and (300h & IRQ10). In the dmesg, i see the >> kernel makes reference to the ex? driver, but when I try to logon to >> another machine on the network via FTP to retrieve the installation files, >> it just sits there and never connects. >> >Have you tried forcing the kernel to detect your card at the specific irq >and port you have set it to? Later FreeBSD releases (2.1.6 on) ask you if >you want to do this when the floppy boots. (The visual config) Well, I don't know how or why it happened, but I guess my Magitronic NE2000 wasn't completely NE2000 compatible. It just refused to work. I was surprised to find a card (the Intel EtherExpress) which is directly supported by the OS wouldn't work. So I moved it to a DOS based machine, and ran some tests. It appears it was defective. So I exchanged it, and now my BSD box is on the network. >there are no sio? messages on the bootup messages? Try the same thing >here i guess, but those irq/port #'s should be standard (hah) As for the modem... Right. I have sio0 and sio1 as the ports on the computer itself. When the computer boots it only detects sio0 & 1. Even though I have sio2 (the internal modem) enabled, it returns that it cannot find it. While sio3 is disabled and not probed which is correct. I have moved a few things around in the system just on the weekend, and I am going to try other IRQ's and do another custom kernel again. Maybe things will go better this time. Thanks again, Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Craig System Administrator Pipe & Piling Supplies (Central) Ltd. Brampton Ontario, Canada (905)840-9250 freebsd@pipe-piling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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