Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:50:40 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= <kalle@sics.se> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560 Message-ID: <3E1E9770.7030301@sics.se> In-Reply-To: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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Yes modified floppies would be great. I dont really get this. When I read the installation intructions I understood it as that all hardware listed in HARDWARE.txt is supported not only by FreeBSD by it self but also available on the floppies. But this isnt the case or? /Kalle Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 on a 560E with the 'ed' driver last week. > > You must re-roll ALOT of stuff to get it working since the kern.flp stuff > doesn't have OLDCARD support. > > I can provide you with modified floppies if you like. > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Karl-Petter ?kesson wrote: > > >>Hi everyone, >> >>I just tried to install the 5.0-RC2 on one of my Thinkpad 560s but was >>not successful. Previously FreeBSD 4.x has always worked just fine to >>isntall on this machine. I think the problem is that the driver to my >>network card does not get loaded. I'm just a user of FreeBSD so I'm not >>fully into the exact steps of the boot and what gets done at certain >>times but these are my guesses... >> >>The configuration of tha machine is: >>Thinkpad 560, 64Mb memory, 20Gb HD set as slave, a 128Mb PCMCIA >>flashcard and a PCMCIA 3Com 3C589C networkcard. >> >>According to the >>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RC2/HARDWARE.TXT my >>network card should be supported but when I have chosen Passive FTP as >>installation medium and is about to setup the network I only get three >>options: >>lp0 Parallel Port IP (PLIP) peer connection >>sl0 SLIP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1) >>ppp0 PPP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1) >> >>It seesm that the drivers for the networkcard are not loaded and >>therefore I only get these three options. Another clue that points in >>this direction is that everytime sysinstall starts it complains about: >>Loading module if_awi.ko failed >>Baystack 660 and others >> >>The (awi) driver is for AMD Am79C930 and Harris (Intersil) based 802.11 >>cards but I do not have any of those installed so I can't understand why >>it complains about that. But I guess since it fails, there are no other >>drivers are load after that point of time and thus my (ep) driver is not >>loaded, correct ? Can I somehow check what drivers are loaded? I thought >>the boot text gave that information but I can not find any information >>about any awi device so why should sysinstall complain? >> >>The only other thing that could be a problem that I could identify are a >>number of unknowns in the boot sequence. Just after the Generic ISA VGA >>I get these: >> >>unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq) >>unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: <PNP0600> can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: <IBM0070> can't assign resources (port) >> >> >>Best Regards, >>Kalle >> > > -- -- Karl-Petter Åkesson SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB http://www.sics.se/~kalle/contact.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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