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 f
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 car
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 devi
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: port 0xec00-0xecff mem
0xd300
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 ca
> 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.
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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 t
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 reb
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
