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From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd)
Subject: FTP install with a 3c509
References: <492rq6$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> <49o2k9$4fi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <49vgup$81n@tzlink.j51.com>
Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:54:16 GMT
Message-ID: <DJ3y6G.8ts@ritz.mordor.com>
Summary: check config, and disable drivers for devices you don't have
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I've done several FTP installs of FreeBSD with 3c509 cards. I only had two
problems to overcome: first, the 3c509 is a soft-configured board, and I've
seen one of them with oddball I/O port and interrupt levels. So when I'm
gonna do an install with a 3c509 I run its diagnostics first, and initialize
the board, and double-check the configuration it ends up using. Make a note
of the I/O port (FreeBSD defaults to 0x300) and irq (FreeBSD is expecting
10). If you end up using different values for either of those you'll need to
tell FreeBSD's driver.

The next step is to type "-c" at the boot prompt, so you can hand-hold the
device driver probe logic. Go in and disable all the drivers for devices you
_don't_ have, and if your 3c509 is at different port or irq tell FreeBSD
about it. BTW, this is a _lot_ more pleasant with the visual config edior in
2.1.0-RELEASE --- it was a bit tedious with the line-oriented config editor
in 2.0.5-RELEASE.

This has worked for me; it recognizes the board, and offers it as an
interface for doing the ftp install. I have to hand-hold the config again
when I reboot off the hard disk, then I immediately config up a custom
kernel and the problem is solved. Well, almost immediately; I pkg_add jove
first:-).

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-Bennett
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