From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 29 6:58:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wombat.matrixtek.net (mimatrix-2.iserv.net [206.114.39.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CA437BA28 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net) Received: from localhost (platypus@localhost) by wombat.matrixtek.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04830 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:07:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:07:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Fuller To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet card (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, James Housley wrote: > Jason Fuller wrote: > At the prompt where it asks to ENTER to boot press the space bar. Then > type "unload" to unload the current kernel. Then you can type "boot > GENERIC" or what ever you named the GENERIC kernel to. I can handle the hard stuff. It's the easy stuff that gets me. It crashes hard on GENERIC, so I cannot get a dmesg, but I do have written down what it says in that area (before it crashes) plip0: on ppbus0 ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: eeprom failed to come ready ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00 ad0: (drive stuff) ad1: (drive stuff) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/wd0s1a swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap drive (File system checks skipped/clean) Doing initial network setup: hostname It freezes badly there, allowing no keyboard inputs even to reboot (ctrl-alt-del). I had to either hit reset button or power switch. Fight Spam! Join CAUCE! -- http://www.cauce.org VirusScan Detected Windows: (A)bort, (D)elete, (F)ormat C: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message