From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 15:40: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E806937B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:40:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eALNdYB46350; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:39:37 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:39:34 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Rob Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA probing In-Reply-To: <000501c0533b$33d755e0$1201ed0a@athlon.quadro.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Rob wrote: > I am wishing to install FreeBSD via FTP (cable modem). The problem is > that FreeBSD is refusing to find the ethernet card. I am almost sure it is > because FreeBSD doesnt like probing ISA devices during install. the card is > a Netgear ISA NE2000 compliant which is supported. Is there anyway I can > force it? or enter extra parameters at the prompt? if so what is required to > do so, for the most part this is the only that can be done and I'm kinda > poor so another NIC is out of the question. do you have any other suggests? > Thanks You have to use the visual kernel configuration thingy to set the correct values for the ne2000's io, irq and memio. While you're there, you should disable all other ethernet devices. When you get to sysinstall's first screen, you can press 'Scroll Lock' and use the up-arrow key to scroll back and check if your card was probed properly. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message