Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:22:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: Mikael Hybsch <micke@securitydynamics.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 981003-BETA installation: ep0 vs. zp0 (+ slip problems) Message-ID: <Pine.SO4.4.04.9810061311460.22031-100000@spirit.dynas.se>
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I was running 2.2.6 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480 which has a 3Com 3c589D-COMBO PCMCIA network card. This worked fine with pccard_enable=YES and the ep0 driver. The zp0 driver on the 981003-BETA boot floppy detects the 3c589D but fails to send/receive any data on the TP connector. I also tried to run a 2.2.6 kernel with zp0 with identical result. Is there a fix for zp0 to make it behave like ep0 with link2 set? Next I tried to install the BETA using ppp to a nearby host. This somehow failed so I decided to try slip. (I don't know what I did wrong, but I reinstalled the same BETA today with ppp and it worked). The problem with slip is that "ifconfig sl0 ..." always gives the error "File exists" which causes sysinstall to give up and say that this installation method isn't available. This only seems to happen when slattach is running. Even if ifconfig returns "File exists" it always does what it's told to do. The workaround I did was to add "|| :" to the "additional arguments to ifconfig" field. The side effect is that "|| :" is then inserted in the ifconfig_sl0 parameter in /etc/rc.conf, but I didn't plan to use slip after installation anyway. I haven't looked at the sysinstall code, but it seems that a solution is to run ifconfig before slattach. -- Mikael Hybsch Email: micke@securitydynamics.com Security Dynamics AB Phone: +46-8-7250900 Box 10704 Fax: +46-8-6494970 S-121 29 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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