From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 17:46:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB7437B404 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 17:45:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F092B2F9; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:45:58 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation/setup attempt not going well Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:45:58 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <10203040108.AA08008@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <10203040108.AA08008@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020304014558.9F092B2F9@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:08 pm, Perry Hutchison wrote: > I have installed and administered many Unix flavors -- the list is at > the end -- but I am having the very devil of a time trying to set up > FreeBSD 4.5. > > I am confident that I have done more wrong than right while installing > from CD, but have got to the point where I can log in. I expect to > blow the whole thing away and start over, but would prefer to do that > only once. If I try to start over now, I'll surely have to throw away > the second attempt also. > > 1. I would prefer to retrieve the list of installed packages, and use > that list as a starting point next time, instead of wasting an hour > digging through the package selection menus again. Is this possible? Yes, do pkg_info to show installed packages/ports > > 2. The first login prompt showed the hostname as "amnesiac" or some > such, and after I logged in hostname(1) produced a blank line. > I suppose this is related to the fact that, when I tried to set up > networking during install, the only choices offered were variants > on PPP and SLIP: it evidently hadn't noticed the 3C509. I hadn't > been able to find it in the collection of network drivers during > kernel configuration, either. Am I mistaken about having seen the > 3C509 in the supported hardware list? (I'd actually prefer use > a PCI network card based on the Intel 82596 chip instead, but I > hadn't been able to find that chip in the supported list.) The 3C509 is supported using the "ep" driver. > > 3. I tried to patch things up using /stand/sysinstall, and did not get > very far. The first time I tried to su, it said I wasn't in the > "wheel" group. I don't recall the initial account setup, during > install, having suggested that. (Fixed by logging in as root -- > which one is not supposed to do? -- and editing /etc/group.) > > 4. At this point, I could log in, su, and run /stand/sysinstall. > I selected Configure, then Networking, then Interfaces. The > 3C509 is still not listed, but there is a "faith0" identified as > . I selected that, then No to > IPv6 and DHCP. Now I can finally enter a hostname, IP address, > etc; but even after OK there's no place to identify the driver > that I want it to use. I suppose these 2 lines (from the dmesg) > are related; but what is the meaning of identifying the irq, then > claiming that there isn't one? "Faith" is an ipv6 translator, you don't want to change any settings on that. > > ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on > isa0 ep0: No irq?! You need to disable PNP in your system's BIOS. Also check to make sure you have enough IRQ's assigned to legasy mode. Next there is a configure utility available from 3Com to set up that card. You will have to boot your machine with a DOS boot disk, Then run the 3Com utility to setup your NIC and an IRQ. A careful look through dmesg should provide one that's not in use. That should get you started anyway. Beech > (SNIP) > > Finally, here's the promised list of Unix variants: > > 6th edition on a PDP-11; SunOS 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1; UnixWare 1 and 2; > Solaris 1 and 2; Red Hat Linux 6.2; OpenBSD 3.0. > > I may have forgotten some. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message