Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:15:52 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net> To: John Morgan Salomon <john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990302101331.7848q-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199903021459.GAA27364@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, John Morgan Salomon wrote: > 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. You REALLY ought to try 2.2.8 if you are going to even use 2.2.x (it's depreciated y'know?) afaik 2.2.8 has a lot of updated 3com drivers. Download a boot.flp and check it out. -Alfred > 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. if you use 3.0 it's almost trivial to build a custom kernel install. > > Anyone have any tips? > > Thanks, > > -John > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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