Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 09:58:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mikee@solozzo.tele.pw.edu.pl (Adam Kubicki) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with compaq Message-ID: <199606220758.JAA25723@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606211545.IAA20939@freefall.freebsd.org> from Adam Kubicki at "Jun 21, 96 05:47:24 pm"
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[Moved to -questions. Please guys, this is absolutely not the kind of questions that should go to -core! Trust the other users, these questions are so simple that they could have been answered by many other people.] As Adam Kubicki wrote: > hi team! > > I've got two compaq deskpro 5100 computers, and i have serious problems > with them trying to run freebsd 2.1.0-R. I searched hardware, questions > and installation mailling lists archives on www.freebsd.org but i still > can't find solutions. The first problem is, that FreeBSD sees only > 16MB of ram (both machines have 32MB) according to dmesg output. FAQ Compaq only announces the first 16 MB of RAM in the usual place in CMOS, and uses some trickery for the remainder. You should be able to force your kernel to 32 MB by options "MAXMEM='(32*1024)'" in your kernel config file. > Second problem is onboard AMD Lance PCI ethernet card with 97c970 > chipset (there are tens of emails about it in your archive, it shoud > go to FAQ i think), kernel seems to recognize this card (dmesg shows > proper settings and proper ether address), but ifconfig gives me > "initialisation error" (anyway, it sets all parameters) then ping etc > commands show sendto error. Are you sure the interrupt setting is okay? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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