From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 11 6: 2:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61E6137B409 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 06:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk) Received: from j141.kch19.jaring.my (HELO acidic.ars.org) (161.142.45.155) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Aug 2001 13:02:14 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:05:37 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53o) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18513108328.20010811210537@yahoo.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: panic: ifmedia_set MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG recently got my old 486dx4 up but am having problems booting freebsd 4.3. the 486dx4 is running on 8mb ram, 840mb hdd, prime mk-cII controller card (floppy, com1/2, lpt), Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 (ISA) NIC, trident vga and currently does not have a floppy or cd drive. the ide-controller is on-board. the installation was made on a different machine (650 duron) and the hdd was then transfered over. this is a GENERIC kernel i'm using. upon booting, i get the error as below (hand-typed): ----------------------------------------------------------- ...Regent copyright... Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: i486 SX (486-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x42a Stepping = 10 Features=0x2 real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) avail memory = 3997696 (3904K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc044d000. md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: 387 emulator isa0: on motherboard ex0: at port 0x300-0x30f irq9 on isa0 ex0: Manual config, 8-bit bus, board id 0x000, stepping 0x0 ifmedia_set: no match for 0x25/0xffffffff panic: ifmedia_set uptime: 0s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort ----------------------------------------------------------- i tried another same disk running netbsd-1.5 GENERIC and it loaded fine -- boots up and everything -- but somehow did not detected the NIC. this is a base-only (minimum) installation. am i wrong to assume that this is an NIC/IRQ/port number issue? or that somehow the NIC is not properly configured? would appreciate any help. thanks. ~as -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message