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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:27:34 -0700
From:      "Paul Fu, Jr." <quark@pacbell.net>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with installation
Message-ID:  <p04330104b5e38b36d8bd@[199.26.222.3]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000912002802.9658C-100000@utah>
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000912002802.9658C-100000@utah>

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Thanks for the rapid response.

The problem is that it freezes after the pci0 declarations and the OS 
doesn't complete installation.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks.

Paul

At 12:34 AM -0700 9/12/00, Jason C. Wells wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Paul Fu, Jr. wrote:
>
>>  I get 8 conflicts, 7 of which are in the networking section. I have a
>>  Netgear FA311 10/100 NIC and this is not one of the selections that
>>  are listed.  If I delete all of the NIC configurations and then
>>  continue, I go into the device probing section where it promptly
>>  freezes after displaying:
>>
>>  pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x100b, dev=0x0020) at 10.0 irq 10
>>  pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1988) at 11.0 irq 12
>>
>>  I've tried to pick one of the network cards that are listed and hard
>>  configure the IRQ and port, but get the same problem. IRQ 10 is the
>>  NIC. IRQ 12, strangely enough, looks like my mouse (plugged into
>>  serial port).
>
>That stuff in visual config is all ISA cards, IIRC.  Unless someone
>corrects me, don't worry about that too much.  As long as the install gets
>going, none of that visual user config stuff is "set in stone."
>
>You might try looking at the website under "supported configurations" to
>see if your card is listed.  It is possbile that your card is supported by
>the system but not in the GENERIC kernel that is on the boot floppy.
>
>Since you have a CDROM, don't worry about the network hardware config
>until you get the OS installed.  Once you get the OS installed, you might
>be able to get the device support you need by building a custom kernel.
>
>(Mind you these are just things to think about.  I did not check to see if
>your card is supported.)
>
>Thank you,
>Jason C. Wells



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