Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:36:16 +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: <20020718143616.GA1378@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <040a01c22e4b$06832c80$0800a8c0@imbridge.se> References: <03ad01c22e30$9b6e24f0$0800a8c0@imbridge.se> <20020718083613.GA388@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <040a01c22e4b$06832c80$0800a8c0@imbridge.se>
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:05:22PM +0200, Erik Mattsson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Where should I do this? Do you mean in the the first menu (Kernel
> config menu, where I can choose Visual/CLI or auto)? Ive removed
> all conflicting networks (eg All), in the Visual menu; but this
> hasnt helped me. Ive tried to disable the ed0 device (ed0 seems to
> have the same irq setting as the de0 has during loading), but this
> didnt help.
Unless you actually have one of those ISA devices, and you want it to
work, then changing the settings in the kernel config won't actually
affect anything much. All that will happen if you don't delete the
ISA devices is that the kernel will attempt to probe for them, fail,
decide you don't actually have such a thing installed and proceed onto
the next device.
> How can I setup the ifconfig? The only options in the CLI mode is
> change IRQ, memory adresses and Flags.
> The install process has never gotten into the sysinstall program, it
> always locks after the "de0: autosense failed" is displayed.
Ah. No. I didn't realize you weren't even getting as far as
interacting with Sysinstall. Normally when booting up the install
system, the network ports are left unconfigured until you start trying
to download packages by FTP. There's a pretty obvious dialog that
Sysinstall steers you through for setting up your hostname, IP number,
DNS server etc --- assuming you aren't using DHCP --- and that has a
box for extra arguments for ifconfig.
You might try unplugging your de0 network cable while you boot up
Sysinstall, then plug it back in before you start actually doing the
install. If that doesn't work, then probably the best thing you can
do is beg, borrow or buy a spare network card, swap it for your de0
NIC, do the install and then swap the cards back, making changes to
/etc/rc.conf as appropriate.
Another thing to try is simply start with some brand new floppies and
copy the installer disk images onto them --- bad spots on a floppy
disk are all too common, and can spoil your whole day.
Cheers,
Matthew
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