Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:35:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Erik Stainsby <stainsby@telus.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: network setup gone bad -- boot hanging Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910252228330.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000701bf1f6a$ebb70da0$cb12c2cf@ws1>
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Erik Stainsby wrote: > <plea type='help!'> > > Here's what I (think) I did: > > I had ppp up and running, then tried to establish an IP address on ep0 as > follows > using /stand/sysinstall -> Configure -> Networks -> Interfaces -> ep0 > hostname: home domain: (either balnk or lets.net, my reg'd domain) > IP: 10.0.0.10 dns: <IP of dial-up providers DNS server - it was preset) > gateway: 10.0.0.10 (this would have conflicted with the 0.0.0.0 of ppp) > > On completing the fields in the form I answered yes to bringing the iface > up, and stepped back out of sysinstall. Nothing seemed ot have happened. It > was then I noticed I have zero activity on the hub for that computer. > > Using ifconfig -a I saw that ep0 was reading alright, correct port address, > and the MAC was showing. I attempted to bring up the interface by hand, > something like: > ifconfig ep0 10.0.0.10 up > > The system hung. Completely. No virtual terminals, no timeouts, not even a > complaining beep from a full keyboard buffer. Dead locked. > > With no way to exit gracefully I power cycled the puppy. It now locks at > "Doing initial network setup: hostname." It has been sitting here for half > an hour this last (third) time I have hard booted. > > > I guess at this point I need two things: > > 1) to be walked thru mounting FBSD HD by hand from the installation > floppies, if possible; > > 2) to have a clue as to which file(s) need to be cleaned out, and what sort > of values I need to be looking at removing. > > I would start mucking about in /etc/networks, then in the rc 's -- But does > anyone have an educated guess what i need to look for? > > The system is my first attempt at FreeBSD -- 3.3-RELEASE -- and this is > my third ground-up installation on the same box. There is a single > dedicated 2G IDE HD installed; no boot loader. This time round I went with > the X-User preprofiled installation (Amnesiac). at the loader press a key to inturupt the boot and "boot -s" answer ok to /bin/sh, mount -a mount -o rw -u / then edit /etc/rc.conf and remove "ep0" from the interfaces line. after exiting the editor, hit ctrl+D to resume booting. It would seem that you have a misconfigured or broken card, does the card work under other operating systems? and if so, does it have the same IRQ/port settings as you have set under freebsd? you can view what freebsd thinks the card is on by looking at /var/run/dmesg.boot. As a side note, the machine totally hung? or can you ^C it while it's doing "hostname" if that's the case then you need to add your IP information to /etc/hosts. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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