From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 19:48:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3054A37B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399A243FA3 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from lannas5modem10.acd.net ([207.179.65.10]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:47:58 -0500 From: taxman To: Mike Doyle , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:51:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030331125235.00a8aae8@199.107.2.1> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030331125235.00a8aae8@199.107.2.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303312251.41418.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2003 03:47:58.0534 (UTC) FILETIME=[7C636660:01C2F801] Subject: Re: Need help getting FreeBSD to run X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 03:48:23 -0000 On Monday 31 March 2003 07:02 am, Mike Doyle wrote: > I'm having a little problem with my ISP. They said they would lease me a > new rack-mounted server and put FreeBSD on to it. However, they were unable > to get it to recognize certain parts of the hardware (specifically getting > errors on the network cards not being initialized correctly). barring a more informed opinion, it seems that there is no support for that ethernet chipset on FreeBSD. It is not listed on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/hardware-i386.html My guess is that the rest of that hardware will run fine with FreeBSD, but unless you get the FreeBSD dmesg for us I wouldn't know. They can get you the FreeBSD dmesg if they get the rescue floppy and use that after booting from the install disk. Then they can save the dmesg to floppy or whatever. beyond that, you'd need to either have them put new network cards in the server, or you'd have to port the linux driver, or pay to have it done. sorry, Tim