Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:36:39 -0500 From: Rick <ric@home.com> To: GVB <gvbmail@tns.net>, john@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (John Morgan Salomon), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3c509B causes freezes on boot/install Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990302143639.013126d0@mail> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302105347.00a9c100@abused.com> References: <199903021459.GAA27364@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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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
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