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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 16:26:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Russell D. Murphy" <rdmurphy@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.7 install: 3Com 3c509b not found?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809211625270.11562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809201920.PAA12938@neale.econ.vt.edu>

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On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote:

> 
> I'm trying to install 2.2.7 on an old (3 yrs) Gateway Pentium 66 from
> a WC CD-ROM via ftp from another FreeBSD machine.  I can't seem to get
> the network card probed, so I never get access to the other machine.
> 
> I go through the visual configuration editor, specify the ep0 device
> and boot up.  As far as I can tell, ep0 is never found (I can't get
> the scroll-lock feature to work - all I get are blank screens when I
> try to move back).  The only devices I'm shown for network
> installation are PLIP and SLIP ones.

Did you configure the ep device with the IRQ and port the card is set to? 

Go into the card's configuration utility and check. And while you're in
there disable PnP.

Doug White                               
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