From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 23:29:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BC337B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8F4143E6A for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:29:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jameswu@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 24999 invoked by uid 417); 16 Oct 2002 06:29:53 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 06:29:53 -0000 Received: from softhome.net ([24.54.234.181]) (AUTH: PLAIN jameswu@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:29:52 -0600 Message-ID: <3DAD075D.5040508@softhome.net> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:29:49 -0700 From: James Wu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sis(4) driver error with NetGearFA311 References: <3DACB703.9080809@softhome.net> <1034745093.363.82.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <3DACF927.3090102@softhome.net> <1034747039.363.88.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacey Roberts wrote: -snip- > You're saying that the sis driver *does not* appears in the collapsed > list of network drivers during full graphical installation? What I'd try > to verify next is the IO port resource addres of the nic. It should be > in the documentation that came with the card. Wow, I need to fix up on my understanding of network cards. Affirmative, the card *does not* appear in the list. It works under Windoze with automatically detected settings (IRQ 9 and I/O 3800-38FF). > The dos floppy that came with the card should have a configuration > utility that allows you to adjust the IRQ / port resource address for > the card. Try that and see if this allows the card to get picked up > properly. The card was second-hand from a friend and didn't come with the original package; the Windoze driver was obtained from the web. I googled configuration of PCI cards resulting in advertisements and spam... so can you give me a little more tip(s) here :-)? A link to the concept and/or information ? NIC PCI cards : NIC cards && I/O || IRQ in general would be greatly appreciated, or any other information that might help in this matter. I know I'm supposed to "do my homework" in the *BSD commmunity, but I had far too much from school already :-) (I'm 14 btw, nice to meet you, great webpage). Thank you for help so far, or it might be another year of overbloated RedHat for me... ---You may safely ignore below, no new comments were written--- -snip- > > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:29, James Wu wrote: >>Stacey Roberts wrote: >>>On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 01:46, James Wu wrote: >>>>I'm a FreeBSD newbie who have attempted the installation of 4.5 a year >>>>ago when I received problems with my NetGear FA311 (National >>>>Semiconductor). -snip- >>>Hi James, >>> I've never tried installation with floppies, but I've been using a >>>Netgear FA311 on a machine here since 4.3 Rel, installed via 4 CD-ROM >>>Set - now running 4.7 Stable. >>> >>>>sis0: at device 13.0 on pci1 >>>>sis0: couldn't map ports/memory >>>>device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 -snip- >>It's PCI, works perfectly under Windows ME, and it is the only nic I >>have; however the sis driver seems to be not on the list of drivers >>(driver selection, graphical mode); instead it seems to be detected >>independently, for a year ago the same person who informed me to install >>from CD also told me to uncheck/delete all drivers in the list and the >>sis would be detected normally... please enlighten me if it is otherwise. >> >>>>-Additional information if needed: is running i686 (Intel celeron), PCI >>>>bridge is Intel82801AA, vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP-Pavilion), other >>>>existing OS: Windows ME *shudder* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message