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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!bet 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 Lines: 26 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:-). -- -Bennett bet@mordor.com <URL:http://www.mordor.com/bet/>