From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Oct 28 20:48:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29589 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:41:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles53.castles.com [208.214.165.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29565 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:41:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00380; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810290441.UAA00380@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matt White cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAO wierdness In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:00:53 EST." <3366753664.909604853@DEIMOS.REM.CMU.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:41:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am trying to install the PAO variant of FreeBSD 2.2.7 on my sony pcg719c > laptop by doing a net install. The ether card is a 3com 3c589 w/xjack > > On my first attempt, the install went smoothly with no problems whatsoever > until I rebooted the system. The machine comes back up with a 'read > error'. I don't sweat this since I specified 'dangerously dedicated' and > read somewhere that makes some machines cry. It doesn't suprise me that > Sony is one of these machines. It makes almost *all* machines cry. > So, back to reinstall. This time I do the same thing as last, minus > skipping the fdisk stuff. Now the machine adds the default route, does the > DNS lookup on ftp.freebsd.org and gives me the message 'Logging into > ftp@ftp.freebsd.org'. Well, I'm watching the SNMP stats on the hub port > that this machine is attached to and it is doing no such thing. If I let > it sit there long enough, it will error out and return me to the main menu. A wild guess would be that the interrupt or media settings on your network interface are wrong. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message