From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 1:50:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C547037B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:50:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from color.sics.se (color.sics.se [193.10.66.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8810143F43 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalle@sics.se) Received: from sics.se (mars.sics.se [193.10.66.188]) by color.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07350; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:50:41 +0100 (MET) env-to () env-from (kalle@sics.se) Message-ID: <3E1E9770.7030301@sics.se> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:50:40 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560 References: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes modified floppies would be great. I dont really get this. When I read the installation intructions I understood it as that all hardware listed in HARDWARE.txt is supported not only by FreeBSD by it self but also available on the floppies. But this isnt the case or? /Kalle Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 on a 560E with the 'ed' driver last week. > > You must re-roll ALOT of stuff to get it working since the kern.flp stuff > doesn't have OLDCARD support. > > I can provide you with modified floppies if you like. > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Karl-Petter ?kesson wrote: > > >>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: can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: can't assign resources (irq) >>unknown: can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: can't assign resources (port) >>unknown: can't assign resources (port) >> >> >>Best Regards, >>Kalle >> > > -- -- Karl-Petter Åkesson SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB http://www.sics.se/~kalle/contact.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message