Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:06:39 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Thomas Connolly <tpconnolly@frii.com> Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet card problem Message-ID: <20021209200639.A42513@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <001201c29fd2$4190ea80$5608a8c0@ceesi.com>; from tpconnolly@frii.com on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:28:09PM -0700 References: <01e101c29fcf$0d2d8990$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <001201c29fd2$4190ea80$5608a8c0@ceesi.com>
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On Dec 09, at 03:28 PM, Thomas Connolly wrote:
>
>
> This is exactly my situation, any ideas??
> "If his NIC is *not* there when it's time to configure and start
> the d-load, it's a hardware/BIOS issue, or somebody's broke
> sysinstall(8).....or is there another option I'm missing?"
OK, it looks like it shakes out like this:
- sysinstall(8) is miibus enabled, meaning dc(4) is available.
- sysinstall(8) should have probed, and found that, dc(4) is
appropriate for your hardware.
- Because dc(4) wasn't listed in sysinstall(8), and your NIC is
an ISA card, you may have to twiddle your BIOS to enable
"legacy" ISA support, then try it again.
- No one has confirmed that drivers may be specified within
sysinstall(8) when the probe says otherwise. I don't know
either way, not ever having to try.
I'd try the BIOS twiddling (not too much at a time, you may have to
revert it to existing values), then try sysinstall(8) again. If that
still yields nothing, try here again. I'll be out of my element at
that point, though; I don't know if proceeding anyway, and editing
/etc/rc.conf afterward would get you anywhere, but it could be worth
the try.
Dave
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> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kevin D. Kinsey,
> DaleCo, S.P.
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 3:05 PM
> To: hawkeyd@visi.com; Jack L. Stone
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Ethernet card problem
>
> OK, he's got a Kingston (generally dc driver) and is trying
> to do sysinstall and d-load over NIC.
>
> IME it doesn't matter what you pick in the "configuration"
> section of sysinstall --- whatever's first should work, because
> those are just old nonPNP ISA NIC drivers.
>
> After doing "kernel configuration in full-screen visual/CLI/skip"
> then sysinstall does an initial device probe, and when you get
> to "configure interface," it should be there.
>
> For the record, device miibus is enabled in -GENERIC kernel.
>
> If his NIC is *not* there when it's time to configure and start
> the d-load, it's a hardware/BIOS issue, or somebody's broke
> sysinstall(8).....or is there another option I'm missing?
>
> Kevin Kinsey
>
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