Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:36:13 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Erik Mattsson <erik.mattsson@imbridge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problems: de0: autosense failed Message-ID: <20020718083613.GA388@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <03ad01c22e30$9b6e24f0$0800a8c0@imbridge.se> References: <03ad01c22e30$9b6e24f0$0800a8c0@imbridge.se>
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:56:12AM +0200, Erik Mattsson wrote: > Everything works fine till after the "Kernel configuration menu", there > I have removed all conflicts. (All 7 conflicts where in the networks > settings), ive also removed all SCSI stuff that I dont want to use and > I've selected the NE2000 device as my network device. You understand that the kernel configuration menu only shows you ISA and EISA devices, which can't identify themselves to the kernel. It doesn't give you any options to deal with PCI devices, as these will be autodetected, and PCMCIA devices are a whole other story. > Im not sure what kind of a network card it is, but during loading it > says: > "de0: Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet". > But after some time it displays > "de0: autosense failed, cable problem?" The Digital 21140A chipset is PCI only, I believe. Anyhow, since you've got that output, your kernel has recognised the card. It can't however detect the ethernet heartbeat signal, either because a) you haven't plugged it into the network correctly or b) because the card or cables are broken or c) the card is failing to autonegociate the media type correctly. c) can be solved by adding 'media 10baseT' as an extra option to ifconfig as exactly as you did for netbsd. It's pretty clear where to put that in the Sysinstall dialog for configuring interfaces. There are some revisions of the de chipset that aren't supported --- if you see a message like: de%d: not configured; 21140 pass 1.1 required (%d.%d found) (where the %d are replaced by numerals), then you are pretty much out of luck. > Does this mean that the network card isnt compabilite with FreeBSD? > It seems that it finds the card at an IRQ and other info, but cant > use it!? Nope. de based cards generally work very well with FreeBSD. > Is there anyway to log all messages when loading/installing so I can > look at them in a slower pace than trying to read from the monitor? > (remember im using the floppies) If you hit the 'Scroll Lock' button, you will freeze the console display at that point. You can then use the 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' buttons to scroll through the previous output. Finally hit 'Scroll Lock' again to get back to normal. One of FreeBSD's niftier little features IMHO. If you really want to record the console output while you're installing, you need to do the installation over a serial console from a second machine. You can then cut'n'paste the console output on the second box. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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