From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 10:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from abused.com (abused.com [204.216.142.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BD414DB9 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gvbmail@tns.net) Received: from gvb (gvb.tns.net [204.216.245.137]) by abused.com (8.9.3/I feel abused.) with SMTP id KAA18891; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 10:57:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990302105347.00a9c100@abused.com> X-Sender: gvbmail@mail.tns.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:54:50 -0800 To: john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (John Morgan Salomon), questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: GVB Subject: Re: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install In-Reply-To: <199903021459.GAA27364@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had the EXACT same problem with a 509... right when FreeBSD initializes the NIC, the system freezes.. so I used a 905 to install with, then put the 509 back in.. it doesnt freeze, but now network connectivity is nill.. I do a ping and it takes like 2 minutes to get a response. GVB At 06:59 AM 3/2/99 -0800, 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. > >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. > >Anyone have any tips? > >Thanks, > >-John > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message