From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 14:58:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailg.telia.com (mailg.telia.com [194.22.194.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF0215553 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik.carlen@telia.com) Received: from d1o29.telia.com (root@d1o29.telia.com [194.236.214.241]) by mailg.telia.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23494 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:58:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from domine.leonis.net (t3o29p23.telia.com [194.236.215.23]) by d1o29.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA18956 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:58:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Fredrik Carlen Reply-To: N/A@d1o29.telia.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Config of ether interface fails Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:56:33 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99082723583001.00269@domine.leonis.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ...and I *have* RTFM! This is the deal: I got two NE2000 compatible (ETHER-16C) ethernet interfaces the other day from a pal of mine, along with an old, beat up skeleton of a 486DX. I was delirious! A *home* LAN! All by myself, to administer the hell out of! Well, today I finally gave up trying to convince my Intel P-166 machine running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE that there actually *was* a NIC at "port 0x320 IRQ 9". What I did was boot BSD -- an' here come the fool-proof explanation -- and when the little piece of text comes up saying "press any other key for blahblahblah", I did just that and *got* "blahblahblah". So then I hacked in, by means of my keyboard, pitiful as it is, "boot -c", and this actually got UserConfig running (ch 12 of "The Complete FreeBSD", pages 194++). So far so good. Then I start visual mode of UserConfig. Here I take away the superfluous stuff, and leave the goodies. Sometimes I leave more than the goodies, to be sure every driver I could possibly need gets loaded later on...well, I change the defaults for "NE2000 et al." to I/O:0x320, IRQ:9 (or 10, depending on my mood for the time being...I know these to be unoccupied), I save the configuration with "q", then I save the *whole* configuration ("q" once again, that is to say). Then the kernel tries to boot. And just after the line that says: "sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles yaddayaddayadda>" the whole b****y thing hangs. Just like that. Nothing happens except for the HD lamp glowing for aeons and aeons. I left it like that an hour so I could get some sunlight, and when I came back nothing had happened. What in the am I doing wrong here? The stuff works running Window$ 95...with the same hardware settings. Unbelievable. Other than that, FBSD and I are communicating quite happily now. /Fredrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message