Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:47:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Johnson <ioann_j@yahoo.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Configuring 3com 3CCFE575TX PCMCIA NIC Message-ID: <20000819054722.3144.qmail@web4102.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks, John, I'm hoping to try this out, but first I need to get my laptop networked. My 3com 3CCFE575BT PCMCIA NIC is not recognized on boot. How do I go about configuring it? I just recompiled my kernel, but I didn't see anything for this particular card... Thanks again, John Johnson --- John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> wrote: > John Johnson wrote: > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.1 on my Dell Inspiron > 3200, > > and the installation appears to have gone fine. On > > restarting the system, though, FreeBSD won't boot. > > I've gone through the install several times now, > with > > the same result. I am using the entire hard disk > (3.9 > > GB), and I've set the slice as bootable. My > partitions > > are as follows: > > > > / 100M > > swap 228M (I've 128M RAM) > > /var 81M > > /usr 3500M > > > > After the install is complete, the system reboots > and > > sits at a blinking underline cursor. > > > > Is this a problem with the MBR? The stange thing > is, > > if I insert my Windows 2000 install CD and don't > > select to run from CD, FreeBSD will boot, so I'm > > assuming the problem is with the boot sector on my > > hard drive. > > Yes, there was a bug in the boot0 binary shipped > with 4.1 > RELEASE. :( I've just added an errata entry for > this to > the website, although it won't show up until > tomorrow. Here > is the text though: > > The FreeBSD Boot Manager (boot0) has a bug that > causes it to hang the machine > during boot with no screen output. > > Fix: Boot your machine into FreeBSD either via a > boot floppy or a CD-ROM, then > download a new boot0 binary from the following > location: > > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/4.1R/i386/boot0 > > Once you have downloaded the new binary, install it > with the boot0cfg command > onto your hard disk. For example, if you have boot0 > on disk ad0, you would > run the following command: > > /usr/sbin/boot0cfg -B -b > /path/to/downloaded/boot0 ad0 > > You may also use cvsup to update your source tree > and build the new boot0 > binary from source. You will need version 1.14.2.3 > of > src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.s or newer. > > The MD5 checksum of this file is: > > MD5 (boot0) = > 8770a386dba44f0aa06b15db72c1f624 > > To verify the checksum of your downloaded copy, > perform the following > command: > > /sbin/md5 /path/to/downloaded/boot0 > > and compare with the above. > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > John Johnson > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: > http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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