From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 9: 2:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.umd.edu (darkstar.umd.edu [128.8.215.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7946337B71B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.umd.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f26H2kJ08714; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:02:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <3AA51836.C8D742F4@glue.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:02:46 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mschwartz@crosswinds.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Dimension 4100 References: <3aa5121e.5053.0@crosswinds.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mschwartz@crosswinds.net wrote: > > I am desperately trying to get FreeBSD to install on a Dell Dimension 4100. > The system boots but when sysinstall tries to probe for devices, the system > freezes. Also, the kernel configuration doesn't show my ethernet card when > I know I have a supported 3Com card. What can I do, I really want to run FreeBSD > and not the RedHat Linux which came with it. I just installed FreeBSD on two 4100's a few weeks ago without any problems. Can you give more details on the problems and what you did during installation? Did you remove all of the conflicts in the configuration editor? If the 3Com card is PCI/PnP it won't show up since PCI cards are autodetected later. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message