Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:50:07 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: eculp@MexComUSA.net Cc: FreeBSD-Current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Netfinity 3500 Message-ID: <199811251950.LAA01848@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:44:56 CST." <365C5E38.44FAC6A7@webwizard.org.mx>
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> I am trying to install current on an IBM Netfinity 3500 PII-266 with > everything on the motherboard. Adaptec SCSI, sound and an fxp 10/100 > ethernet. Sounds good and everything works until I try to do an > ifconfig to set up the fxp0 interface. I can list it , change the > media, change mediaopt but when I put > > # ifconfig fxp0 inet myip netmask mymask > > and hit return, it dies. I don't even get to see my carriage return > :-) I'm stumped. I even disabled it with BIOS and put a physical card > in and it did the same. > > Thanks for any suggestions. This is noted in the release notes for 3.0-RELEASE; I experienced it at the IBM test centre here. I don't know what causes it; it looks like an interrupt lock or something similar. The short answer is - don't try to use the onboard ethernet. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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