Date: 25 Jun 2000 04:48:08 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Are recent snaps any better regarding Netgear? Message-ID: <m2vgyyuglj.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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Are recent snapshots handling Netgear cards any better? A report from a Toshiba 4005CDS user, inexperienced with FreeBSD (linux background) Using 4.0-20000624-STABLE snap Pentium II, 233 mhz. 96 MB Synchronous Dram Netgear FA410TX pcmcia network card Noteworthy 3com 56K modem card This post is long and possibly boring but I thought it might help get things a little nicer if posted. Since it is long I've included a summary at the beginning. Summary: Using recent snapshot of 4.0-STABLE fails to find the pcmcia ehternet card. From reports on freebsd-mobile, I understood the recent snaps had fixed some of the problems with Netgear cards. I've found them to fail on my machine. Finding only the modem card, and offering no possiblity of network activity during install. Initial boot with kern.flp goes off with out a hitch, switch to mfsroot.flp and arrive at the Kernel config menus screen. I choose the full-screen visual. Its not realy clear to me what is supposed to happen... Even after reading the help provided at ? Am I supposed to get rid of all drivers I don't need or just the ones that have conflicts? To stay on the safe side I decide to only resolve the conflicting drivers. There are 8 conflicts, all under `network' I don't really understand IRQs and how to set them but here is what showed up. Active Driver Dev IRQ Port IBM Etherjed, CS89x0-based Ethernet adaptors cs0 0x300 NE1000, NE2000,3c503, WD/SMC80xx Ethernet ad. ed0 10 0x200 [Note -ed Is the one above likely to be one I need?] Fujitsu MD86960A/MD869685A Ethernet ad. fe0 0x300 AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100, 3C507, NI5210 Ethernet ad. ie0 5 0x300 DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet ad. le0 10 0x280 Isolan, NOvell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet ad. lnc0 10 0x200 SMC/Megahertz Ethernet Ad. sn0 10 0x300 I only count 7 here but the screen insists there are 8, no other Headings have conflicts reported. I move all conflicting items to inactive with <del>. 7 <del>s and no more conflicts are reported. Press Q and Y.. proceed Boot screen starts to scroll by. I can find no way to Freeze it on my keyboard Although once boot up is over a `Pause/Break' button allows scrolling terminal output. So I'm unable to write down what passes by. A dialog shows up saying `User Confirmation Request' Found PC-card slot(s) Use PC-card device as installation media? I choose YES ... proceed Another dialog box.. Please Select free address area used by PC-card controller " . . . . . . . If you're uncertain of detailed specification of your hardware leave it untouched (default == 0xd0000) I'm `uncertain' so I choose `Default' Next... another selection dialog `Please select IRQs that can be used by PC-cards' [NOTE -ed the very next line says; "Please specify an IRQs that CANNOT be used by PC-card (emphasis in original -ed)"] Again I choose the `default' IRQ 10, 11 New Message box "Now we start initializing PC-card controller . . ." Press OK Message "Initializing PC-card controller Watching the action on debug screen I see: DEBUG: ioctl93, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) Code 128 not found Code 128 not found Code Unknown ignored Code 131 not found Code 131 not found Code Unknown ignored DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to s10 [Note -ed Apparently it has found only my modem card , nothing that looks like it might be ethernet reported. Whereas, when I made this same attempt with floppy images from 4.0-RELEASE My network card was found and mapped. (Didn't work but was found)] Main Menu I choose `Begin standard installation . . ." Message about the coming fdisk screen pops up OK <ENTER> My partitions are alread set from previous attempts so I leave them as is: It shows: Name type Desc Subtype - 6 unused 0 ad0s1 2 fat 11 - 6 unused 0 ad0s2 4 extended 5 [NOTE -ed `extended' is actully a series of logic partitions with Linux ext2 file systems] ad0s3 3 freebsd 165 - 6 unused 0 Q to accept next a boot manager screen pops up.. I choose Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager OK <ENTER> Message screen about the partition editor coming up .. OK <ENTER> This is already setup too, I made a small change in swap and /var giving swap 100 MB less than the default 196MB and 20 over the defaults for var at 50MB Leaving 2105MB for user. Root"/" set to 50MB. I had to remark the mount points. Q to accept Choose Distributions I choose the Kernel-Developer just to make sure I will get all the tools and files to rebuild the kernel [Note -ed I found this dialog somewhat confusing. It claims the user can "pick a canned distribution set and then fine-tune it with the Custom item. Choose an item by pressing [SPACE]. When you are finished, choose the Exit or press enter" Pressing space causes that choice to be made and the dialog disappears immediately there is no chance to `choose EXIT or press enter". Or to fine tune anything. If you press the space key thre dialog is history. It would be nice if the space and enter action were consistent throughout the install routine] User Confirmation Request Do you wish to install cryptographic software NO <ENTER> [NOTE: -ed Although I've said `no' I'm still queried as to whether I am act- ually a resident of US] YES <ENTER> User Confirmation Request Would you like to install FreeBSD ports collection YES<ENTER> [Note: -ed This returns me to the Distributions screen.. I guess this is where you make the custom choice if wanted.] CANCEL <ENTER> Choose Installation media dialog appears, I choose: Install from an FTP server [-ed although probably doomed to failure since no ethernet was found] OK <ENTER> Select a site ... I choose the URL option since I want to install from the distro sitting on my desktop unit running Redhat linux 6.2 which is setup as an anonymous ftp server. Insert the address: ftp://192.168.xx.xx/pub/FreeBSD <ENTER> I'm shown a screen with: lp0 Parellel (PLIP) s10 SLIP ppp0 PPP [Note: -ed I'm now dead in the water, there is no choice for my ethernet card.] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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