Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 20:14:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= <kalle@sics.se> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560 Message-ID: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <3E1E0085.2040803@sics.se>
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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 Åkesson 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: <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 > -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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