Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:18:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jon <k_m34@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IBM PC 750 & Linksys LNE100TX from OS X iBook network install success. Message-ID: <20030112231826.23773.qmail@web41105.mail.yahoo.com>
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I'm not a list subscriber, but I thought I 'd share a success I have had getting my Linksys LNE100TX (ADMtek AN985 based) NIC to work for sysinstall. I've read a few previous posts where people claimed that they had to install with a temporary NIC, configure a custom kernel, then reinstall their Linksys card for it to work. I've found that this is not so. Here's my basic setup: IBM PC 750 - P-100, 80MB RAM, 850MB IDE disk, Linksys LNE100TX NIC, SB16 ISA, CD-ROM. Apple iBook - G3-600, 640MB, 20GB, built-in NIC, good 24x CD-ROM. I tried to boot the PC off the FreeBSD 4.3 cd I have, but it was scratched from another (bad) cd drive so that was a no-go. Luckily the iBook reads the scratched cd perfectly, which I've already used to net-install an old IBM ThinkPad 360CE. I booted the PC from the standard floppies, bypassed the kernel config (the first mistake that everyone else made too, I'm sure) and began to setup the (O)ptions for the install. I selected DHCP, set my ftp user to one on the iBook, and proceeded to start a standard install. When it came time to configure the network card, the kernel spewed something akin to what is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#TRAP-12-PANIC I tried following the instructions for deciphering what was going wrong, but I seemed to get different addresses everytime I re-attempted the install. I'm sure this is what eveyone else would have run into as well. I did find that some of the addresses were found in the mii code, so I brainstormed that it might be a conflict in the network drivers. I began another re-install. I went into the kernel config this time and disabled ALL of the available network options. Suddenly things worked flawlessly and the NIC got configured (without a page fault) via DHCP from the iBook and happily began the install. Problem solved, and the NIC works just dandy for sysinstall. Another tip for those net-installing from an OS X Apple: use a standard user account for your ftp setting in sysinstall. When you set what FTP server to get the files from, specify ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx//Volumes/fbsdxx_1 as the server and directory. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of the Mac, of course, and fbsdxx_1 is the first disk of your FreeBSD release CD. It made for an interesting install, almost as interesting as getting the old TP running. Jon. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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