From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 6:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ngo.org.uk (ngo.org.uk [193.62.43.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398C137B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mac@localhost) by ngo.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA06657 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:32:40 +0100 (BST) From: Mac Message-Id: <200008311332.OAA06657@ngo.org.uk> Subject: AARRGGHH!! (4.1-RELASE install woes with 3c509 card) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:32:39 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I've been installing FreeBSD over the 'net since 2.1.5 and I've _never_ had this much trouble. I'm trying to install 4.1-RELASE. I've got fresh kern.flp and mfsroot.flp files and all that seems fine. I can boot, I can get the install menus running fine. But, I can't seem to get the 3C509 card in the machine to work. It works fine with 3.1-RELEASE install floppies. Moreover, I can't seem to find the device in the kernel's visual config. I can see from HARDWARE.TXT that it's supported and that it's in the GENERIC kernel. It _is_ available in the list of network connection thingys in the install prog (along with the usual ppp and parallel port stuff). The problem comes just after I enter all the 'ifconfig' details (hostname, IP address, default gateway etc. etc.) These are all correct (and they all work with 3.1-RELASE floppies, all re-tested today). The PC hangs. Pressing ALT-F4 results in a continuous beep from the PC speaker, pressing 'Scroll Lock' results in the 'Scroll Lock' light coming on (but no scrolling back is possible), pressing any other keys (incl C-A-Del) does nothing. The major oddity is that the kernel reports (something like) this during boot:- ep0: found at 0x300 <---- i.e. this line looks OKay ep0: eeprom not responding ep0: eeprom not responding ep0: eeprom not responding ep0: eeprom not responding ep0: eeprom not responding ep0: MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00 Now, I do have 3Com's diagnostics, so I've checked the card out, and it's fine. (and remember this all works fine with 3.1-RELEASE boot floppies). HELP! There's no boot ROM on the card (nor is there meant to be). All ideas gratefully received. Mac To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message