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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: 2.1.0 10/5 PCI install problems Message-ID: <DH0EKC.204@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 14:48:48 GMT Lines: 53 I am having several problems installing the Oct 5th SNAPshot version 2.1.0 on my system. First a description of the system. Motherboard: AP5C (no listed manufacturer) 75Mhz Pentium (soon to be upgraded to 100Mhz) 4 PCI slots and 4 ISA slots, 256KB cache, 16MB RAM. Onboard: floppy controller, 2 serial ports with 16550 UARTs, parallel port, and IDE host adapter (IDE is disabled). AMI BIOS. SCSI host adapter - Adaptec 2940 in PCI slot 1 Video - ATI Graphics Xpression w/1MB DRAM and Mach 64 chip in PCI slot 2 Ethernet - SMC Etherpower 10Mb/sec (SMC8432T) in PCI slot 3 Problem number one: When any serial device is probed (sio0 - sio3) the system hangs in never-never land. Disabling the probe for these devices allows boot to continue. Same thing happens with onboard com ports disabled and ISA serial card installed. Problem number two: After installing FreeBSD from the DOS partition and generating a kernal with de0 support, I get the following error: de0: can't read ENET ROM (why=-4) The probe detects a: Digital DC21041 Ethernet rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:20 I have seen others with similar problems in the freebsd newsgroup and I was wondering if anyone ever found a solution to either one of these problems? Have either one of these problems been addressed in the latest SNAP? P.S. As always "it works fine under Windows" :-} | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |