From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 4 01:25:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA15368 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 01:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA15079 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 01:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA07949; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:20:57 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA04344; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:20:57 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA10537; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:59:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603040859.JAA10537@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation problems To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:59:41 +0100 (MET) Cc: philh@cdngateway.pe.ca (Phil Holmstrom Technician) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <313784DC.274C@cdngateway.pe.ca> from "Phil Holmstrom Technician" at Mar 1, 96 03:14:36 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Phil Holmstrom Technician wrote: > When I pick the connection device lp0 it is not able > to reset it and the installation dies from that point. We are using a > pent 100 and our ethernet card is an Intel Pro Ethernet Express 100 b > card with all the factory default settings. :-) lp0 is the ``PLIP'' device, using a laplink cable on your printer port. The Intel EtherExpress Pro ain't supported in the 2.1 distribution, though there is a driver available in -current (and i think it went into the -stable branch recently). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)