Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:13:51 +0800 From: Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk> To: Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: ifmedia_set Message-ID: <93506167.20010811231351@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <18513108328.20010811210537@yahoo.co.uk> References: <18513108328.20010811210537@yahoo.co.uk>
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nevermind... it really is the NIC that was causing the problem. Saturday, August 11, 2001, 09:05:37 PM, Alvin Sim wrote: > recently got my old 486dx4 up but am having problems booting freebsd > 4.3. the 486dx4 is running on 8mb ram, 840mb hdd, prime mk-cII > controller card (floppy, com1/2, lpt), Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (ISA) > NIC, trident vga and currently does not have a floppy or cd drive. the > ide-controller is on-board. > the installation was made on a different machine (650 duron) and the hdd > was then transfered over. this is a GENERIC kernel i'm using. upon > booting, i get the error as below (hand-typed): > ----------------------------------------------------------- > ...Regent copyright... > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: i486 SX (486-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x42a Stepping = 10 > Features=0x2<VME> > real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) > avail memory = 3997696 (3904K bytes) > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044d000. > md0: Malloc disk > npx0: <math coprocessor> on motherboard > npx0: 387 emulator > isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard > ex0: <Intel Pro/10> at port 0x300-0x30f irq9 on isa0 > ex0: Manual config, 8-bit bus, board id 0x000, stepping 0x0 > ifmedia_set: no match for 0x25/0xffffffff > panic: ifmedia_set > uptime: 0s > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > ----------------------------------------------------------- > i tried another same disk running netbsd-1.5 GENERIC and it loaded fine > -- boots up and everything -- but somehow did not detected the NIC. this > is a base-only (minimum) installation. > am i wrong to assume that this is an NIC/IRQ/port number issue? or that > somehow the NIC is not properly configured? would appreciate any help. > thanks. ~as -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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