From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 15 17:47:16 2002 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 A016337B404 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C7C943E4A for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:47:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jameswu@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 9290 invoked by uid 417); 16 Oct 2002 00:47:05 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 16 Oct 2002 00:47:05 -0000 Received: from softhome.net ([24.54.234.181]) (AUTH: PLAIN jameswu@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:47:03 -0600 Message-ID: <3DACB703.9080809@softhome.net> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:46:59 -0700 From: James Wu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: sis(4) driver error with NetGearFA311 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm a FreeBSD newbie who have attempted the installation of 4.5 a year ago when I received problems with my NetGear FA311 (National Semiconductor). I was told then that installing from floppies does not offer me the same set of drivers and thus I should use a CD instead. I got a CD writer this year and as par instructions burned the mini iso of 4.7, and still received the same issue. According to the hardware list, my NatSemi uses the sis driver, which is detected at boot time, during which I received: -snip- sis0: at device 13.0 on pci1 sis0: couldn't map ports/memory device_probe_and_attach: sis0 attach returned 6 pci1: (vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x004e) //not sure if it's part of the error message so putting it on anyway -snip- And according to Diagnostics in the documentation "sis%d: couldn't map ports/memory [indicates] a fatal initialization error has occurred.", I think it's my error in configuring. Could anyone out there give me a hand? Thank you, James -Additional information if needed: is running i686 (Intel celeron), PCI bridge is Intel82801AA, vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP-Pavilion), other existing OS: Windows ME *shudder* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message