Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:49:01 +0100 From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro Message-ID: <200810040649.GAA19778@sopwith.solgatos.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:45:24 PDT." <20081004034524.GA44662@icarus.home.lan>
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>> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.
I have an older LG PATA combo drive which works ok.
Does it show up when booting? (Does dmesg work from the installation shell?)
Maybe you need to "kldload atapicam" ? Or is that only needed for writing,
I forget...
> The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell
> ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly). I wonder if FreeBSD
> somehow lacks support for this...
7.0 ata man page claims support for:
Marvell 88SX5040, 88SX5041, 88SX5080, 88SX5081, 88SX6041,
88SX6081, 88SX6101, 88SX6141.
> I also tried to install Ubuntu and it works fine (but I really would
> like to have FreeBSD!).
Have you tried NetBSD or OpenBSD?
> > thank you very much for your help. I downloaded the 7.1 prerelease,
> > but unfortunately didn't solve the problem with the CD/DVD. As for
> > the ethernet card, it's a kind of catch 22: to see if the card is
> > working I should install the OS, but I cannot from the DVD.
Who says you *have* to install from a DVD? You might be able to install
from NetBSD or OpenBSD, or maybe even penguinix. Or connect the disk
to some other FreeBSD box. Installing Unix is basically fdisk and/or
disklabel, newfs, mount, tar, edit config files, reboot. Sometimes you
need to get creative.
# mount partition(s) for FreeBSD on /mnt
# mount iso on /mnt2
export DESTDIR=/mnt
cd /mnt2/7.0-RELEASE
for foo in base doc catpages dict games info manpages proflibs ports lib32
do
cd ${foo}
./install.sh
cd ..
done
> Understood. This situation is very frustrating; people often run into
> on Windows as well ("How do I get the Ethernet driver for my NIC from
> the web site if Windows doesn't already have support for my NIC?!").
Plug in a working Ethernet card.
Use RS-232 and ppp.
CD/DVD
attach disk to a working machine
etc. etc.
> > I cannot even install over FTP, because the institution I am in wants
> > my MAC address to allow this pc to connect to internet and I cannot
> > get to the MAC address without installing an OS (at least, I don't
> > know how... I tried an Ubuntu LiveCD, but it doesn't recognize the
> > ethernet card, either).
Sometimes the MAC address is printed on a sticker.
Copy files to a local machine, ftp from that machine?
Copy ISOs to a spare partition somehow. Then mount the ISOs using
mdconfig kludge.
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