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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:06:45 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= <kalle@sics.se>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560
Message-ID:  <3E1E0085.2040803@sics.se>

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Hi everyone,

I just tried to install the 5.0-RC2 on one of my Thinkpad 560s but was 
not successful. Previously FreeBSD 4.x has always worked just fine to 
isntall on this machine. I think the problem is that the driver to my 
network card does not get loaded. I'm just a user of FreeBSD so I'm not 
fully into the exact steps of the boot and what gets done at certain 
times but these are my guesses...

The configuration of tha machine is:
Thinkpad 560, 64Mb memory, 20Gb HD set as slave, a 128Mb PCMCIA 
flashcard and a PCMCIA 3Com 3C589C networkcard.

According to the 
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RC2/HARDWARE.TXT my 
network card should be supported but when I have chosen Passive FTP as 
installation medium and is about to setup the network I only get three 
options:
lp0	Parallel Port IP (PLIP) peer connection
sl0	SLIP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1)
ppp0	PPP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1)

It seesm that the drivers for the networkcard are not loaded and 
therefore I only get these three options. Another clue that points in 
this direction is that everytime sysinstall starts it complains about:
Loading module if_awi.ko failed
Baystack 660 and others

The (awi) driver is for AMD Am79C930 and Harris (Intersil) based 802.11 
cards but I do not have any of those installed so I can't understand why 
it complains about that. But I guess since it fails, there are no other 
drivers are load after that point of time and thus my (ep) driver is not 
loaded, correct ? Can I somehow check what drivers are loaded? I thought 
the boot text gave that information but I can not find any information 
about any awi device so why should sysinstall complain?

The only other thing that could be a problem that I could identify are a 
number of unknowns in the boot sequence. Just after the Generic ISA VGA 
I get these:

unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0600> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <IBM0070> can't assign resources (port)


Best Regards,
Kalle
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Karl-Petter Åkesson
SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB
http://www.sics.se/~kalle/contact.html


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