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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!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.0 10/5 PCI install problems Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 20:41:30 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 33 Message-ID: <308F036A.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <DH0EKC.204@tigger.jvnc.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: John Lucas <jlucas@uvi.edu> John Lucas wrote: > I am having several problems installing the Oct 5th SNAPshot > version 2.1.0 on my system. Can you try one of the later snaps? More on why I suggest this below. > 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. I'll bet it's your ATI card stealing an interrupt.. Just for grins, try substituting some bog-standard VGA card if you have one lying around. I know that ATI graphics cards have given me nothing but grief in the past! I've never had one work right the first time, not once. I avoid them like the plague and am a staunch #9 and Matrox (when you can afford the commercial X server) fan now after some really bad ATI experiences. > 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) This is ID'd as a DC21041 chip, not the DC21040 that the snapshot you're trying supports. Try the latest SNAP - support for the newer chipset was added only recently.. > | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html | If you ever decide to set up a home for retired FreeBSD hackers there, let me know.. I'll be on the first boat.. :-) -- Jordan