From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 29 09:24:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10829 for current-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:24:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10824 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:24:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12115; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:06:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701291706.KAA12115@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: installing network cards To: dara@salk.edu (Dara Ghahremani) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:06:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dara Ghahremani" at Jan 28, 97 07:16:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Thanks very much for your help. The cards are being recognized in both > machines now, but other problems have emerged. > > 1) On Machine#2, which has the Intel card installed, I can login but upon > entering my passwd, the screen freezes and no key presses have any affect. > Do you know what may be the cause of this? This is typically a wierd keyboard controller. If you unplug and replug the keyboard, does it come back? Are you using a PS/2 mouse? The console driver has changed recently to account for PS/2 mouse issues, and a couple of keyboard stalls due to writing the LED's; there may even be an option for working around your problem... see the LINT file in /sys/i386/conf for documentation of available options. If you can't fix it this way, you will need to contact the driver maintainer, Soren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org). > 2) On Machine#1, there seems to be a conflict w/ the SCSI bus (where the > internal drive is connected) and the net card (both in PCI slots). > Sometimes both work fine, but most of the time, the SCSI bus is > not recognized upon boot. Do you know of any tools which might help sort > out this matter? Is your SCSI an Adaptec 3940? They take 2 PCI interrupts. Try reordering the cards, in any case. If you can, avoid putting a card to either side of the SCSI card (other than the video card). If your video card issues vertical retrace interrupts, jumper them off. Note that slot one and slot four are adjacent for the purposes of interrupt stealing. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.