Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:34:53 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 sysinstall failure to configure network interface Message-ID: <361B66F5.D0DE9D0@camtech.net.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810061452480.19930-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Yes, I've seen that too.... but that was when the card was misconfigured. In the case I'm talking about, the three configurable items have been checked: - set the card to the settings GENERIC expects - make sure the UTP media interface is selected - re-configure the BIOS to allow IRQ 10 to be used for ISA cards but it still hung unless I had manually ifconfiged the card from the emergency holigraphic shell before telling it to go... once I did this, the install went beautifully (at a very good speed too). Surely the install would have gone very slowly or not at all if the card was misconfigured. (this was not a minimal install in both cases as kernel source and XFree86 were selected). If its a DNS problem.... our DNS server is Digital UNIX 4.0b (maybe d?). Yes I do realise 2.2.7 is not CURRENT... I was just wanting to see if many people had seen the same problem to see if there is something that should be fixed before 3.0 RELEASE goes out. I was originally going to mail -questions only but I'm pretty sure that many people dont read -questions.... send-pr is more appropriate but as I said before, I was in too much of a hurry to gather full hardware information suitable for a problem report. Anyway, next time I will gather more information. Doug White wrote: > > 2.2.7 is not CURRENT. > > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > > I have had to install two 2.2.7 systems recently over the net and > > sysinstall failed to configure the network interface in both cases. > > > > I think it was either an ed0 or an ep0 device. > > I've had this happen when the ethernet card is misconfigured and/or the > cabling is not connected correctly. Sysinstall hangs at the 'adding > default route' screen but it's trying to do a nameserver lookup. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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