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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.corpcomm.net!newstand.syr.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on a PCI w/ Adaptec 2940W Date: 20 Oct 1995 15:03:41 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 34 Message-ID: <468dod$ooc@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <467jc4$6sd@zippy.cais.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de To: everett@cais.cais.com (Everett Harris) In article <467jc4$6sd@zippy.cais.net>, everett@cais.cais.com (Everett Harris) writes: |> I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on a Pentium PCI PC with a an |> adaptec 2940W host adapter and have has no success. The main problem is |> that it does "see" my 2940w card. I've tried entering "irq ahc* 10" and |> some variations but no luck yet. The PCI cards all come with their own unique ID, and that of the 2940 is different from that of the 2940W. Since vendors don't announce PCI IDs in advance, there is no way a kernel that was built before the card was available to the driver writers could be made aware of that new card, even if it fully emulates ist predecessor if the new features aren't touched. For this reason, you'll either need to patch the driver in 2.0.5, or install a more recent kernel, that knows about the 2940W in particular. The latest 2.1 snapshots recognize the 2940W, so you may want to use the boot floppy from the most recent SNAP. DOn't know, whether you can actually use this to load enough of the 2.0.5 system to be able to rebuild a kernel with 2940W support under 2.0.5, though. It would really help, if you had some other controller at least for that boot strap step ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>