Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 22:18:08 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Lin <stevenclin@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCI Probe on Pentium-120 Message-ID: <20011222061808.84957.qmail@web12503.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I'm trying to make use of an old Pentium-120 machine, so I thought I'd start by installing FreeBSD 4.4 (I'm running 4.4 on a couple other, newer machines in the house already.) Anyway, some important devices in this P120 machine include: Intel 82557-based Ethernet NIC Adaptec 2940W SCSI controller both on the PCI bus. However, when booting from the install diskettes for 4.4, the PCI bus is never probed, thus these devices are never found, thus I have major problems trying to install (no disk and no network). In other words, I never see any messages like "pci0" or anything having to do with PCI on the startup screen, like I typically do when installing FreeBSD. Both the NIC and the hard drive attached to the SCSI controller work just fine under Windows, so I think the hardware is okay. I have seen some ancient messages in the newsgroups regarding non-standard PCI chipsets and some difficulties in detecting PCI BIOS on some machines -- mostly Compaqs. The machine in question is a "generic" machine - not sure what kind of motherboard, but certainly not a Compaq. Any ideas how I can get the FreeBSD 4.4 install disk to probe the PCI bus and find the PCI devices? Thanks! Steve Lin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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