From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 15 14:52:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA19770 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19640; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA06653; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:14 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA10300; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:51:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA18054; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:48:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607152148.XAA18054@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1.5 installation does not work. To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:48:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: jamah@cs.rpi.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <931.837452781@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 15, 96 10:46:21 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Sigh.. Yes, it looks like we managed to break support for this card > at the last moment for some people (see the KNOWNBUG.TXT file at the > root of the 2.1.5 release directory). I'm not sure what to suggest > except to say that if you can locate a spare ethernet card just for > installation, you can apply the patch in KNOWNBUG.TXT and get your > card working again post-installation. If you've got to the point where the emergency holographic shell is already running: Alt-F4 (go to the console with the shell) ifconfig ep0 down ifconfig ep0 up ...has been reported to unwedge the card. (Sigh. Oh well, i'm feeling guilty...) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)