From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 06:52:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C4A1065678 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:52:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from parsely.rain.com (parsely.rain.com [199.26.172.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAE48FC12 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from sopwith.solgatos.com (uucp@localhost) by parsely.rain.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with UUCP id m946q6486664 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 23:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com) Received: from localhost by sopwith.solgatos.com (8.8.8/6.24) id GAA19778; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:49:01 GMT Message-Id: <200810040649.GAA19778@sopwith.solgatos.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:45:24 PDT." <20081004034524.GA44662@icarus.home.lan> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:49:01 +0100 From: Dieter Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus P5Q Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:52:10 -0000 >> 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.