From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 2 22:05:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA19442 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pscwa.psca.com (romulus.pscwa.psca.com [199.99.162.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA19436 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vulcan by pscwa.psca.com (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M, PSCWA update 950701) id AA07661; Wed, 2 Jul 97 22:05:47 -0700 Message-Id: <9707030505.AA07661@pscwa.psca.com> Received: by vulcan.pscwa.psca.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0X) id AA00942; Wed, 2 Jul 97 22:05:46 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.1mach (Enhance 2.0b5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Manu Iyengar Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 22:05:44 -0700 To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble with NICs while installing 3.0-970618-SNAP via FTP Reply-To: m@pscwa.psca.com X-Wired: FreeBSD Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm trying to install 3.0-970618-SNAP via FTP, and am having trouble getting the Ethernet card to work properly. I've tried with 3 different NICs, 2 PCI (Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B, SMC EtherPower 10/100) and 1 ISA (Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+). All three are properly probed, seem to make ifconfig & route happy, and generally show no signs of trouble until the installation attempts to resolve `current.freebsd.org' (or anything else). With the 2 PCI cards, the driver complains about a "transmission timeout". With the ISA PRO/10+, the driver doesn't complain, but nothing happens (no DEBUG output) and the install times out. Here's the setup: Hardware: Micron Pentium with 3 PCI slots SMC EtherPower 10/100 in PCI Slot 3 (de0, DEC 21140) OR Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B in PCI Slot 3 (fxp0) OR Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ in ISA Slot 1 (ex0) Adaptec 2940AU in PCI Slot 2 Diamond Stealth 64 in PCI Slot 1 (the shared PCI/ISA slot) Sundry ISA stuff (Bus Mouse card mse0, SB16) So far, I did the following: 1) Transferred the boot image from the snap to floppy. 2) Boot up, no problem. 3) In the "Options" menu, choose FTP->3.0 SNAP Server->de0/fxp0/ex0 4) Type in the appropriate network configuration information. This is all correct, this machine used to run FreeBSD 2.1.0 a while ago (but not with the same NIC card. I was using an EtherExpress 16, which is not supported by the boot floppy). >From looking at the debug messages, ifconfig succeeds, routes are added fine, etc. but the de0 & fxp0 drivers subsequently complain. Here's the DEBUG output: DEBUG: Init routine called for network device de0. DEBUG: Notify: ifconfig de0 inet x.y.z.42 netmask 0xffffff00 DEBUG: Executing command `ifconfig de0 inet x.y.z.42 netmask 0xffffff00' DEBUG: Command `ifconfig de0 inet x.y.z.42 netmask 0xffffff00' returns status of 0 DEBUG: Notify: Adding default route to x.y.z.1. DEBUG: Executing command `route add default x.y.z.1' add net default: gateway x.y.z.1 DEBUG: Command `route add default x.y.z.1' returns status of 0 DEBUG: Network initialized successfully. DEBUG: hostname = `current.freebsd.org' DEBUG: dir = `pub/FreeBSD/' DEBUG: port # = `21' de0: transmission timeout de0: transmission timeout de0: transmission timeout de0: transmission timeout de0: transmission timeout Ditto with fxp0 (device timeout), but ex0 is silent. All three cards appear to see traffic (from the activity LEDs) at all times. I know the network jack, cabling, etc. are fine (have another machine to swap & test with). The specified gateway, nameserver et al. are okay, the IP address for the machine is reserved, and I have not the foggiest on where to look next. Have others run into this sort of thing? Is installing via FTP deprecated? Am I overlooking something insanely obvious? Should I Cc this to freebsd-hackers or freebsd-current since it's a 3.0-SNAP thing? And in case those questions weren't enough, can humble mortals like me roll a boot floppy with the EtherExpress 16 driver on it (ix)? I know *that* works. Any & all help greatly appreciated and gladly rewarded in beerware :-) Thanks, -mi