Re: installing fbsd on laptop, nic error
From: Edward Paul Wehrwein (last_name_at_ccs.neu.edu)
Date: 12/11/03
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:49:27 -0500
"james <at> hal-pc.org hal-pc.org >" <"james <at> wrote in message
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> Edward Paul Wehrwein wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm installing 5.1-release on my laptop, gateway solo 2300, and it has a
> > 3com pcmcia network card that's on the supported hardware list (ep).
> >
> > When the system is booting it produces this:
> > ....
> > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> > ep0: <3Com Megahertz 3CCFEM556B> at port 0x100-0x11f irq 10 function 0
> > config 7 on pccard1
> > ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
> > device_probe_and_attach: ep0 returned 6
> > sio4: <3Com Megahertz 3CCFEM556B> at port 0x120-0x127 irq 10 function 1
> > config 39 on pccard1
> > sio4: type 16550A with a bogus IIR_TXRDY register
> > sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
> > ad0:.....
> >
> > and the network card doesn't work.
> > This normally wouldn't be an install issue, but it's not seeing my
cd-rom
> > either right now.
> > It looks like it detects it normally during boot, but then it can't
mount it
> > to install files.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Paul
> >
> >
>
> i don't know about others, but i've never had luck getting any of my
> dual cards to recognise both devices at the same time. i know the 3com
> cards work well as i have a 3c589d using the ep driver as well as (don't
> have it in front of me) a 100mb 3com using the xl driver. this may just
> be a matter of the card being a dual purpose nic/modem rather than it
> not working with that particular nic.
> as far as the cdrom goes... are you booting from floppies? does your
> computer not support booting from cd? if you are booting from floppy,
> then you need to load the driver disk as well and select cdrom support.
> i may be misunderstanding here, so please clarify
>
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> - - J A M E S - - P O O L - -
> < james AT hal-pc.org >
>
> Nobody notices what I do - until I don't do it.
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first, this is completely academic as i've installed openbsd, which I'm far
more familiar with, and gotten it working that way =p
Anyway, the card is indeed a dual purpose card, but i didn't need the modem
part working for the install. It wasn't clear to me that it was trying to
activate the modem, mostly because I've not had to use a modem under bsd or
even linux ever =D. Apparently sio is a modem driver?
In terms of the booting issue, the computer claims to support cd-rom
booting, but I haven't seen it do it sucessfully. So I was booting off
floppies and it didn't occur to me that the floppy boot disk might not
include cd-rom drivers, as this would seem like an obvious thing to me. I
also couldn't find any good documentation of what exactly was included in
the boot floppies, which is probably a good part of my problem.
Paul
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