From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 11:49:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ct.home.com [24.2.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E25D14DEA for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:47:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ric@home.com) Received: from C870318-a ([24.2.138.46]) by mail.rdc1.ct.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990302194737.QEXF21575.mail.rdc1.ct.home.com@C870318-a>; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:47:37 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990302143639.013126d0@mail> X-Sender: ric@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:36:39 -0500 To: GVB , john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (John Morgan Salomon), questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rick Subject: Re: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302105347.00a9c100@abused.com> References: <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 What you have to do is, boot with -c and disable everything else on 0x300 or change it with an etherdisk do something else, i used 0x3h0. this removes the conflict. (the 509 dosent like beaing probed, it causes the lockup). At 10:54 AM 3/2/99 -0800, GVB wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message