From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 1:28:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C591B37B416 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA77712; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:21:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 01:21:17 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Alan Lo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't install freebsd 4.4 Release In-Reply-To: <002a01c16e9f$cbf2d8b0$0300a8c0@netxsyst23> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Alan Lo wrote: > I can't install freebsd 4.4r. > When i try to install freebsd, after the kernel configuration, my computer > always hangs after display the line: > plip0: on ppbus0 > > How can i solve it? > > Thank you very much. > This is the third time I've heard about this problem. This is the parallel port interface, as I understand it; does it work if you disable ppc0 in the kernel configuration on boot? It uses IRQ 7 and there shouldn't be any conflicts with other devices, but perhaps this will work. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message