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David Bear

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Jan 2, 2002, 10:08:03 PM1/2/02
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Using FreeBSD4.4 Release Sept 18. Pulling my hair out on this one.

I have a pentium pro, 64 mg ram, 3com 3c905b, adaptec 29160N, plus ide hard disk and cdrom.

problem: freebsd isn't recognizing the 3com card or the adaptec card, both are
specifically mentioned as support.

I've run diags on the NIC under dos. Works.

I can get into the SCSI bios and set and view card info -- as well as see all
scsi devices (right now just an orb drive and a hard drive, but later a scanner) no
errors reported there.

When I load freebsd it acts as if they aren't there. no errors from fail
modules, no errors from failed driver loads -- nothing.

Please? any advice..
--
David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU
480-965-8257
...the way is like water, going where nobody wants it to go

Rob MacGregor

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Jan 3, 2002, 2:37:02 AM1/3/02
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David Bear wrote:

> Using FreeBSD4.4 Release Sept 18. Pulling my hair out on this one.
>
> I have a pentium pro, 64 mg ram, 3com 3c905b, adaptec 29160N, plus ide hard disk and cdrom.
>
> problem: freebsd isn't recognizing the 3com card or the adaptec card, both are
> specifically mentioned as support.
>
> I've run diags on the NIC under dos. Works.
>
> I can get into the SCSI bios and set and view card info -- as well as see all
> scsi devices (right now just an orb drive and a hard drive, but later a scanner) no
> errors reported there.
>
> When I load freebsd it acts as if they aren't there. no errors from fail
> modules, no errors from failed driver loads -- nothing.
>
> Please? any advice..

Are you running the GENERIC kernel? Support probably isn't compiled into whatever kernel
you're running...

--
Rob MacGregor (MCSE) [PGP key ID 0x791E6573]
The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming dragon.

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Sean Hamilton

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Jan 3, 2002, 6:02:48 AM1/3/02
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> problem: freebsd isn't recognizing the 3com card or the adaptec card, both
are
> specifically mentioned as support.

Try inverting "Plug and Play Aware OS" in your BIOS... I couldn't get a 3com
card detected with it on, and it seems to be a common problem.

sh


mic...@lpthe.jussieu.fr

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Jan 3, 2002, 10:54:19 AM1/3/02
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David Bear <id...@moroni.pp.asu.edu> wrote:

> Using FreeBSD4.4 Release Sept 18. Pulling my hair out on this one.

> I have a pentium pro, 64 mg ram, 3com 3c905b, adaptec 29160N, plus ide hard disk and cdrom.

> problem: freebsd isn't recognizing the 3com card or the adaptec card, both are
> specifically mentioned as support.

> I've run diags on the NIC under dos. Works.

> I can get into the SCSI bios and set and view card info -- as well as see all
> scsi devices (right now just an orb drive and a hard drive, but later a scanner) no
> errors reported there.

> When I load freebsd it acts as if they aren't there. no errors from fail
> modules, no errors from failed driver loads -- nothing.

But do you load the modules?
For the NIC
ifconfig xl0 <IP number> netmask <netmask>
should autoload the module. But you can always issue
kldload xl
and observe dmesg.
For the scsi card you need to compile
device ahc
in kernel.
These cards are PCI cards so they can share interrupts. But you can
always tweak interrupts assignments in the BIOS before booting to
have a clean setup.

> Please? any advice..
> --
> David Bear
> College of Public Programs/ASU
> 480-965-8257

> ....the way is like water, going where nobody wants it to go

--
Michel Talon

David Bear

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Jan 10, 2002, 1:39:48 PM1/10/02
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Yes, I'm running the generic kernel.
Yes, I've attempted to load the modules. Including an attempt to kldload if_xl.

FreeBSD hates this hardware.

The solution, loaded linux. Everything is detected and works find. Now,
if only linux were as clean as FreeBSD;-(

Nick Hilliard

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Jan 10, 2002, 3:44:27 PM1/10/02
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David Bear wrote:
> FreeBSD hates this hardware.

Whatever about the 29160N, I've used freebsd on a lot of boxes with 3c905 cards,
including the A, B and C varieties, and all of them have worked extremely well.

What happens when you type in "ifconfig xl0"?

Nick

J'm Sm'th

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Jan 10, 2002, 4:40:01 PM1/10/02
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David Bear wrote:
>
> Yes, I'm running the generic kernel.
> Yes, I've attempted to load the modules. Including an attempt to kldload if_xl.
>
> FreeBSD hates this hardware.
>
> The solution, loaded linux. Everything is detected and works find. Now,
> if only linux were as clean as FreeBSD;-(
> --

When you did the initial installation of FreeBSD did you select the appropriate
things from the initial kernel configuration menu? The 3Com should be
compatible with the [help me here, folks] NE2000 driver, and you might just
delete *all* the SCSI interface drivers from the list of suggestions. Try
booting that, reviewing dmesg, and see what you find.

I had a devil of a time getting FBSD past the hardware probe stage once
/stand/sysintall would start. Pulled the USRobotics PCI modem card [which I
don't need] and all was fine.

Your system *should* work, and IMO it's worth figuring out how to get it there.

--
J'm


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