[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried to upgrade an old server with 3.8 via a floppy. It was > running 3.7 with a DB and web server previously. > > During the upgrade, it did not detect the NIC. As it was a test > server, I tried a re-install rather than an upgrade...same thing. > > The 3.7 install disk works so I know it is not a problem with the > card or the floppy. I tried pulling the floppy38.fs several times > and running a dd to put the a couple of known good floppies all with > the same results. ...
> OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC ... > tx0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "SMC 83C170 (EPIC/100)" rev 0x06: irq 11 address > 00:e0:29:09:3d:42 > qsphy0 at tx0 phy 3: QS6612 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 Apparently, the tx driver was replaced for 3.8, and got a new name: epic(4). The epic(4) driver appears to be in floppy38.fs, bsd.rd and GENERIC. It is not in the B or C floppies. If the the floppy38.fs or bsd.rd are not working properly for you, boot from either, mount a disk partition, drop a dmesg to that partition, then boot normally to show us what you are getting on 3.8. If you try to do a normal upgrade, you will probably have some difficulties due to the change in the driver name (you might be able to fix that by copying your hostname.tx0 to hostname.epic0 before the upgrade media is booted), however a normal install should work fine (assuming you use the right boot disk). Regardless...I'd recommend bsd.rd over a boot floppy... Nick.
