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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!gatech2!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: FTP install with a 3c509 References: <492rq6$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> <49n0ma$38v@hudson.lm.com> <49o2k9$4fi@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <49vgup$81n@tzlink.j51.com> <DJ3y6G.8ts@ritz.mordor.com> Organization: Mordor International Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 14:10:42 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <DJ4A1u.14H@ritz.mordor.com> Lines: 38 Bennett Todd (bet@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : I've done several FTP installs of FreeBSD with 3c509 cards. I only had two : problems to overcome: first, the 3c509 is a soft-configured board, and I've : seen one of them with oddball I/O port and interrupt levels. So when I'm : gonna do an install with a 3c509 I run its diagnostics first, and initialize : the board, and double-check the configuration it ends up using. Make a note : of the I/O port (FreeBSD defaults to 0x300) and irq (FreeBSD is expecting : 10). If you end up using different values for either of those you'll need to : tell FreeBSD's driver. : The next step is to type "-c" at the boot prompt, so you can hand-hold the : device driver probe logic. Go in and disable all the drivers for devices you : _don't_ have, and if your 3c509 is at different port or irq tell FreeBSD : about it. BTW, this is a _lot_ more pleasant with the visual config edior in : 2.1.0-RELEASE --- it was a bit tedious with the line-oriented config editor : in 2.0.5-RELEASE. : This has worked for me; it recognizes the board, and offers it as an : interface for doing the ftp install. I have to hand-hold the config again : when I reboot off the hard disk, then I immediately config up a custom This is indeed true. You should ALWAYS run the little DOS config program that comes with the board first and check to see how it's configured. Though I don't think Bennett and I did that when we did our install here. *grin* : kernel and the problem is solved. Well, almost immediately; I pkg_add jove : first:-). Feh, Emacs is the true king, though jove is nice if you want to save the 20-30mb of disk space hogged by the emacs source tree. :) Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451