From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 15:40:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18666 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gwa.ericsson.com (gwa.ericsson.com [198.215.127.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18661 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mr1.exu.ericsson.se (mr1.exu.ericsson.com [138.85.147.11]) by gwa.ericsson.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id RAA22910 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:39:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from newman.exu.ericsson.se (newman.exu.ericsson.se [138.85.10.50]) by mr1.exu.ericsson.se (8.7.1/NAHUB-MR1.1) with ESMTP id RAA02086 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:39:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from b04h32.exu.ericsson.se (euswdwj@b04h32 [138.85.55.132]) by newman.exu.ericsson.se (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27150 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:39:54 -0500 (CDT) From: "William D. Ward" Received: (euswdwj@localhost) by b04h32.exu.ericsson.se (8.7.6/8.6.12) id RAA25926 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:32:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709252232.RAA25926@b04h32.exu.ericsson.se> Subject: Compaq XL 590-PCNet Problem? (jkh sent me) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 17:32:21 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL0] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Perhaps it was some sort of devine province that Jordan decided post the mini-FAQ (ref. Q-2) shortly after I sent this question to comp.unix.- freebsd.misc. Or not. It would depend on your faith maybe. -- Hello, This message was originally posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list with minimal response. I have about 40 of these machines and it would be good if I could do something useful with them for a change. The FreeBSD installation boot floppy did not work for this system (this is definitely not the norm) so I roled my own using methods I found in the /usr/src/release directory. Please help. ---original message posted to freebsd-questions mailing list follows--- I'm having some difficulties getting the Ethernet interface to work on a Compaq Deskpro XL 590. Currently ifconfig on this machine results in a syslog message reporting 'lnc0: Initialisation failed' (which perhaps means that the initialization failed). The FreeBSD installation boot floppy did not work for this system so I roled my own using methods I found in the /usr/src/release directory. I have about 40 of these machines and it would be good if I could do something useful with them for a change. Please help. I am using 2.2.2-RELEASE. My procedure is as follows: 1. boot from custom boot floppy that does not go into /stand/sysinstall but instead starts /etc/rc script containing just /stand/sh. it also has ifconfig, mount, ping, route, and dmesg (crunched dmesg isn't working thus no verbose boot info in this note. i could use some help here too maybe. separate issue). 2. boot -c. set port for lnc0 to 0x7000 and continue boot. the hardware is probed. i see the following: a. pci0:0 is probed but no driver is assigned. (bad sign or not?) b. lnc1 shown to be detected even though there is only one interface. this is immediately after pci0:0 is probed. (hmmm) c. lnc0 is shown to be detected later on when the rest of the Ethernet interfaces are looked for. 3. /stand/sh is invoked. from command line issue: # ifconfig lnc0 161.76.4.7 lnc0: Initialisation failed ^ ^ ^ (note case and spelling.) 4. pinging 161.76.4.7 works but pinging another address that should go out the interface reports that 'network is down'. play with routing for a little bit to see if everything is ok there. same results. ifconfig -a reports that the interface is up. the interface is plugged into a hub. Other points: 1. another point that might be interesting (or not) is that ifconfig -a reports that there are two lnc interfaces (lnc0 and lnc1) yet there is only one adapter. configuring either interface yields the same result. 2. the hardware is as follows: Compaq XL 590 Pentium 100 32 MB RAM 512 MB SCSI IBM HD on board PCNet Ethernet/SCSI Host Adapter (see below) Chip Data: the chip labeling for the Ethernet adapter is as follows: PCNet (tm) - SCSI AM79C974KC 9434CP8 A4 1993 AMD here is what Compaq has to say about the PCNet-SCSI chip: Pcnet-scsi Chip The Compaq Deskpro XL series packs new levels of power through the PCneto-SCSI chip. Jointly developed by Compaq and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), PCnet-SCSI is the first chip to fully integrate both the 32-bit Fast SCSI-2 controller and 32-bit Ethernet NIC on the PCI local bus on the system board, saving not only the expansion slots that would otherwise be needed for SCSI and Ethernet add-on boards, but also the cost of the controllers themselves which typically cost several hundred dollars each. PCnet-SCSI provides customers with a higher-performance network-ready solution that is compatible with all major operating systems. 3. in looking through the mailing list archive it appears that this has been a problem in the past for some Compaq platforms. in some cases resolution may have been obtained by setting the port for lnc0 to 0x7000. other cases appear to be unresolved faulting Compaq's PCI bus which may not conform to accepted standards on some models. 4. floppies/boot.flp does not work on this system. it appears to hang when sysinstall would normally display its UI. this is not a problem as it is possible for me to load the machine manually once the network interface is configured. it is only a problem in getting verbose boot messages as the fixit floppy which probably has a working dmesg is not accessible. ---original message ends--- Doug White (thanks, Doug) responded to my original post and pointed out that I did not mentioned that I tried booting without making changes to the port address. Thanks in advance. best regards, William