Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 13:09:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike <mike@seidata.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 problems on a Dell Dimension XPS D300 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980406130757.18904Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405210803.23630A-100000@seidata.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Mike wrote: > Work was nice enough to purchase a nice, fast, 300MHz P2 system for me... > unfortuneately, it's loaded with lots of hardware that likes to assume > you're using Windows 95... and... if you're not, it doesn't work. :) > > When booting 2.2.5 from the CD or with the boot floppy, got a hang as soon > as the ethernet card was detected. It's a 3Com 900 Combo card - and guess > what... it's a PnP jumperless card. Can you say trash? :) No, it's a PCI card. It configures itself. You're correct about it being trash though -- it has no buffer space. Yuck! :( > I removed the card and I thought I was off scott free... but I then got > weird results from the secondary IDE controller. Here's my current setup: > > wdc0 > Primary master: IBM 8.5GB IDE > Primary slave: not used > wdc1 > Secondary master: ATAPI CD-Rom > Secondary slave: not used > > It detects the IBM hard disk with no problems, but then it tries to detect > wdc1 and all goes down hill from there. The screen goes blank except for > a flashing cursor in the lower-left hand corner... after a few minutes > the screen blinks and a beep is heard, but nothing changes (screen still > blank). It just sits there and does nothing... How far down is that? Check the jumper settings on your CD. Try moving it onto the primary controller. The black screen is a stick in finding devices; try hitting ALT-F2 and see what you have there. > Oh... and... what's the general consensus (yeah, right!) on the best NIC > and CD-Rom drive for FreeBSD? :) NIC: Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B (or +) CDROM: A SCSI one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980406130757.18904Q-100000>