Re: Install Trouble
Renewing the call for help... I am trying to get a realtek 8139 nic card working under FreeBSD. I turned off the serial ports in the bios, but it seems to still find a serial port (misreading a device as a serial port???) and gives it an irq of 11 which conflicts with the realtek card. I noticed that the same card under windows has an irq of 60. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 and I tried reassigning the irq for the nic card using /boot/device.hints as described in the handbook. It does not seem to effect it at all. What kernel parameters can I pass to reassign this irq? I have a complete dmesg log I can email if someone wants to look at this as well. I thank you all in advance for your assistance. Best regards, Tim Hawes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Trouble
OK, I disabled the serial ports and the install went fine. I did not need to disable plug and play. I am now having difficulty getting the ethernet card working It seems to detect that I have a RealTek 8139 card (which is correct). Here is what dmesg returns: rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xd3001000-0xd30010ff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl0: couldn't map interrupt device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6 I also noticed this just before the ethernet card: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 2.7 (no driver attached) sio0: SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider port 0xe800-0xe807 irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A So, I guess FreeBSD does not do plug and play, and what I have is an irq conflict? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Trouble
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:22 -0400 Tim Hawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I disabled the serial ports and the install went fine. I did not need to disable plug and play. I am now having difficulty getting the ethernet card working It seems to detect that I have a RealTek 8139 card (which is correct). Here is what dmesg returns: rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xd3001000-0xd30010ff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl0: couldn't map interrupt device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6 I also noticed this just before the ethernet card: pci0: multimedia, audio at device 2.7 (no driver attached) sio0: SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider port 0xe800-0xe807 irq 11 at device 7.0 on pci0 sio0: moving to sio4 sio4: type 16550A So, I guess FreeBSD does not do plug and play, and what I have is an irq conflict? Looks like that, yes. It seems odd that it would detect sio0 when the serial ports are disabled in the BIOS. Did you re-enable them after install? Beyond that - I'm kind of out of my league. If your BIOS lets you change the IRQ for the serial port, you could try that. But someone more experienced with this could probably give you a better solution. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Trouble
It seems odd that it would detect sio0 when the serial ports are disabled in the BIOS. Did you re-enable them after install? No. I had only used the serial port for a UPS that is no longer hooked up to the PC, so I just left it disabled. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install Trouble
I am a newbie in the FreeBSD world, but an old hat for Solaris and Linux. I have an Intel box with Windows 2000 and Linux already on it. I shrunk my Windows partition to allocate about 16 GB for a new FreeBSD install. I have installed FreeBSD on VMware several times in the past, so this is my first non-virtual install. In trying FreeBSD 5.1: The install completely halts shortly after it shows the Probing hardware (this may take a while...) message. I look at vt1 to see what debugging messages are there. I notice that it stops right after finding the /dev/cua devices. The console is not locked, I can switch back and forth from vt0 and vt1 without trouble. It is just stopped. In trying FreeBSD 4.8: The console is completely locked shortly after the Probing hardware screen appears. There is no vt switching at all. Booting in verbose mode did not seem to be telling. Just that it stops after setting up the /dev/cua devices. I have tried to disable loading drivers for different hardware, including the serial devices, the nic card, etc (no SCSI). This is a Walmart Os-less PC I bought just over a year ago. I am no hardware guru, and I am not sure what info is pertinent, so tell me what I need to tell you to help me. Best regards, Tim Hawes ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Trouble
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:10:14 -0400 Tim Hawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Booting in verbose mode did not seem to be telling. Just that it stops after setting up the /dev/cua devices. I have tried to disable loading drivers for different hardware, including the serial devices, the nic card, etc (no SCSI). Have you tried disabling the serial ports from the BIOS? Not the best solution, but if you don't need them, well, FreeBSD can't choke on something it can't see :) -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Trouble
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Tim Hawes wrote: In trying FreeBSD 5.1: The install completely halts shortly after it shows the Probing hardware (this may take a while...) message. I look at vt1 to see what debugging messages are there. I notice that it stops right after finding the /dev/cua devices. The console is not locked, I can switch back and forth from vt0 and vt1 without trouble. It is just stopped. In trying FreeBSD 4.8: The console is completely locked shortly after the Probing hardware screen appears. There is no vt switching at all. Try turning off Plug And Play in the BIOS. The FAQ also mentions Zip and Jaz drives causing similar problems, but that is probably outdated. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:53:06PM +1000, Aaron ILES wrote: I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop. (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies) The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the kernel the boot pauses after just a few seconds, screens worth of something is printed and the machine reboots. All this happens to quickly for me to read most of the output. I did however read this line. fatal trap 12 ... I have also attempted this install with FreeBSD 4.7. A similar reboot occurs. No copious output is produced though. Does any one know how to log the install process so I can debug this further? Does any one know what fatal trap 12 is? That's a SIGSYS non-existent system call invoked. However, in this case it probably means that either there's some sort of hardware problem with your system or that your system is not capable of running a recent version of FreeBSD -- 8Mb is cutting it pretty fine: probably too fine. Check the archives, but I believe you need at least 12Mb to install 4.x. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop. (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies) The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the kernel the boot pauses after just a few seconds, screens worth of something is printed and the machine reboots. All this happens to quickly for me to read most of the output. I did however read this line. fatal trap 12 ... I have also attempted this install with FreeBSD 4.7. A similar reboot occurs. No copious output is produced though. Does any one know how to log the install process so I can debug this further? Does any one know what fatal trap 12 is? Regards, Aaron ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
