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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help installing FreeBSD
Date: 2 Apr 1997 14:55:53 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <334154af.8092281@news.cc.rochester.edu>,
cw005e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu writes:
> I need help installing the FreeBSD 2.2 release. I am having a very
> difficult time trying to get my ethernet card to function properly. My
> card is a Intel Ether Express 16. FreeBSD could detect the card when I
> booted up with the boot disk. I changed the IRQ to the default IRQ of
> the card. Everything works great. The only part that is messed up is
> when I go into ftp install. I want to install the whole distribution
> over ftp. At the screen the ethernet card times out. I tried this
> about 10 times and never works. It keeps timing out. The card is
> picked up at boot but it does not work when I am trying to connect to
> the ftp site. I checked all the cables and the card. It works under
> Debian Linux so i know the card is ok.
>
> All help are appreciated. thanks.
>
> Please reply via e-mail to cw005e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
These problems are always AFAIK due to cableing or IRQ errors problems.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !