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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admaix.sunydutchess.edu!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!jake.esu.edu!crooow.wcupa.edu!usenet From: Peter Schwenk <pschwenk@crooow.wcupa.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD ROM problems Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:12:17 -0400 Organization: West Chester University of Pennsylvania Lines: 38 Message-ID: <316C6A81.7E63@crooow.wcupa.edu> References: <316820FA.350F@ucdavis.edu> <4k9rgj$23b@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.26.15.174 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) Howdy, I was also under the impression from the documentation that the EtherExpress 16 (I'm assuming that's what he's talking about, but he could mean the EE Pro) doesn't have a stable driver yet. It may not be worth it to try to get the EE working. J Wunsch wrote: > > Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> writes: > > > The install disk has a > > note that to get the Intel EtherExpress card to work, one must > > disable mcd0 & mcd1. It seems the system gets confused. > > You cannot have two devices on the same address. Apart from this, it > should work. (The note was related to the dozen of devices that > default to address 0x300.) > > > My question > > is, can FreeBSD even be run with both of these peices of equipment, > > or if we are simply hosed. Any help would be appreciated. > > Try disabling all the devices you don't have, perhaps even the > Etherexpress if you don't need it for the installation. Post us the > relevant kernel boot messages should you still fail. (Hint: once > sysinstall has been started and presents you its welcome screen, hit > ScrollLock and PageUp to see the boot messages.) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- - Peter Schwenk, Academic Computing, West Chester University of Pennsylvania - pschwenk@wcupa.edu