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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net>
To: John Morgan Salomon <john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install
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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
> 



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