Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:47:14 -0500 From: "Predius" <predius@netzero.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Diskless USB Issue Message-ID: <000701c1aec9$5900aac0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>
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I'm working on setting up a Compaq iPaq for netbooting, and have run into a small problem that's got me stumped. My Setup: Parasite (iPaq): 32MB Compact Flash card, formated as a FAT fs, loads DOS, and uses dosboot.com (from netbsd) to load a freebsd kernel on the filesystem. The kernel is built for bootp, and specifically has bootp wired to aue0. When booting, all is good, usb is detected, aue0 is detected, and it attempts to do bootp. Problem is at no point in time does the unit detect a link, causing dhcp to just repeatedly timeout. I've observed this system when netbooting via a NetBSD kernel, and see similar behavior, the link isn't autodetected till it actually starts sending bootp requests. (It's a Linksys USB100TX Ver B1 btw). Is there any way to hardwire a media setting in the kernel to get around this? And for those rolling their eyes at this arrangement, it's actually working pretty good under netbsd right now, which is what I use to transfer content to the CF media as I'm too lazy to get a usb cf reader for my desktop. Considering USB is only going to get more and more popular, might as well start playing with it, right? : ) Joshua Coombs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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