From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 6:47:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C3E37B416 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 06:47:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.64]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:49:56 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: "FBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Adaptec 2940 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 09:47:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <000d01c19b76$87a57ba0$6600000a@ach.domain> Importance: Normal 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 To boot off of the cd drive you have go into your bios and tell it to boot from cdrom and not scsi drive. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. Hornback Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 9:37 AM To: Douglas Atkin; questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Adaptec 2940 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Douglas Atkin > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:01 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Adaptec 2940 > > Greetings, > > I am attempting to install BSD for the first time. I > am unable to get my computer to boot off of the CD so > I downloaded the startup disks (kern & msfroot. I > notice in the kernal device configuration GUI there is > not a driver for my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card however it > is supported according to the hardware document. I > cannot seem to locate how to install the driver onto > the boot disk. > > Please assist. The 2940 won't be listed, as it's a PCI card. The graphical (ASCII) configuration setup is only for specifying ISA cards. Do not be alarmed. Most PCI cards are found by FreeBSD's hardware probe. > I chose a different driver to move forward not > necessarily expecting the install to work but rather > get to a point where I could pull the OS then fix the > driver later. I am attempting to accomplish a ethernet > connection using DHCP. The machine cannot locate a > DHCP server and I think this is do to not recognizing > my SMC NICs which are also supported according to the > hardware list. > > Please assist. Which model NIC? That would be helpful in this instance. > My CDROM is not on the hw list but is a SCSI NEC > connected to the adaptec 2940. During the 100 lines > of initialization it is recognized. I have exhausted > my means at this point. The fact that your SCSI CD-Rom is found during the system boot process means that FreeBSD has found your Adaptec controller. Or are you saying that it is not found? > How can I get connected to put the OS on the box. > Thanks sincerely. Well, if you're wanting to do a network install, we need to get that CD-Rom working. If you're wanting to use the CD-Rom, that should be possible unless I'm missing something in your post. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message