Looks like I stumped freebsd-questions, anyone else care to take a whack at this?
Joshua Coombs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Predius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:47 PM Subject: Diskless USB Issue > I'm working on setting up a Compaq iPaq for netbooting, and have run into a > small problem that's got me stumped. > > My Setup: > > Parasite (iPaq): 32MB Compact Flash card, formated as a FAT fs, loads DOS, > and uses dosboot.com (from netbsd) to load a freebsd kernel on the > filesystem. > > The kernel is built for bootp, and specifically has bootp wired to aue0. > When booting, all is good, usb is detected, aue0 is detected, and it > attempts to do bootp. Problem is at no point in time does the unit detect a > link, causing dhcp to just repeatedly timeout. > > I've observed this system when netbooting via a NetBSD kernel, and see > similar behavior, the link isn't autodetected till it actually starts > sending bootp requests. (It's a Linksys USB100TX Ver B1 btw). Is there any > way to hardwire a media setting in the kernel to get around this? > > And for those rolling their eyes at this arrangement, it's actually working > pretty good under netbsd right now, which is what I use to transfer content > to the CF media as I'm too lazy to get a usb cf reader for my desktop. > > Considering USB is only going to get more and more popular, might as well > start playing with it, right? : ) > > Joshua Coombs > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
