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From: jensting@ic.ac.uk (Jens Tingleff)
Subject: SOLVED: FreeBSD problems with WD8003
Message-ID: <1993Oct23.141921.5037@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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Organization: Elec. Eng. Imperial College, London
References: <2a9foo$iog@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> <1993Oct23.120518.3515@cc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 14:19:21 BST
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Alright. As indicated in my previous post (forwarded file from David Greenman)
there is a problem with the probing code for FreeBSD which makes the ISOLAN
driver probe the WD8003 card, even if the WD8003 *was* found correctly...
So, commenting out the ISOLAN driver in the config file seems the thing to do,
and indeed, IT WORKS!!!!! (sorry about the caps, but this got me *down*)
A temporary workaround to get the source distribution onto the BSD system is to
FTP to a DOS partition using some functional FTP program (I used CUTP - NCSA).
Then mount the DOS diask as pcfs and extract as pr. usual (i.e. rename alll the
source distribution files from their long names; FTP to DOS/BSD box; cat | gzip
-d | tar xf - extract; make kernel as per usual).
What a releif!
Jens
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Mr Jens Tingleff, M.Sc.EE. PhD student at
Imperial College, Dept of EE, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BT, England
jensting@ic.ac.uk or jensting@dinghy.ee.ic... (used to be jensting@diku.dk)
"The Duc de Ventre says he will carry that ghastly schlup to his mausoleum" N L