From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 6:59:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF46514BE6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 06:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from john@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/) id GAA27364; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 06:59:09 -0800 (PST) env-from (john) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 06:59:09 -0800 (PST) From: john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (John Morgan Salomon) Message-Id: <199903021459.GAA27364@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am having troubls on both a Compaq ProLiant 2500 (with Mark Dawson's custom boot floppy for 2.2.7 with SmartII raid5 support, worked fine on another ProLiant) and on an HP Netserver 5/133 LS. The trouble is that I'm using an isa 3Com 509b network card (which works fine in the running ProLiant running 2.2.7 and in some other FreeBSD machines, including HP Deskpros). I am trying to do an ftp install. When I boot the machine with the boot/install floppies, I detect ep0 as a 3C509B/UTP on both machines. Normally, when I get to the part where you configure your network card in the custom install menu, my machines just freeze up. Bang. Dead. No rescue. Likewise, from the emergency shell, ifconfig will freeze the machine. I read in TROUBLE.TXT in the 3.1-RELEASE/ directory that on HP Netservers, you have to drop to the CLI hardware config and tell it 'eisa 12', I do that. However, when I tried that on the HP, the network card configured without crashing but when it got to the actual ftp part, it freezese up the machine. Subsequent attempts at doing the sam e give me equal results. Anyone have any tips? Thanks, -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message