Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:41:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matt White <mwhite@cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO wierdness Message-ID: <199810290441.UAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:00:53 EST." <3366753664.909604853@DEIMOS.REM.CMU.EDU>
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> I am trying to install the PAO variant of FreeBSD 2.2.7 on my sony pcg719c > laptop by doing a net install. The ether card is a 3com 3c589 w/xjack > > On my first attempt, the install went smoothly with no problems whatsoever > until I rebooted the system. The machine comes back up with a 'read > error'. I don't sweat this since I specified 'dangerously dedicated' and > read somewhere that makes some machines cry. It doesn't suprise me that > Sony is one of these machines. It makes almost *all* machines cry. > So, back to reinstall. This time I do the same thing as last, minus > skipping the fdisk stuff. Now the machine adds the default route, does the > DNS lookup on ftp.freebsd.org and gives me the message 'Logging into > ftp@ftp.freebsd.org'. Well, I'm watching the SNMP stats on the hub port > that this machine is attached to and it is doing no such thing. If I let > it sit there long enough, it will error out and return me to the main menu. A wild guess would be that the interrupt or media settings on your network interface are wrong. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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