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Today's Topics:

1. LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus
P5Q Pro (Giuseppe Pagnoni)
2. Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro (Jeremy Chadwick)
3. Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro (Michael Fuckner)
4. Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro (Pyun YongHyeon)
5. Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro (Jeremy Chadwick)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:32:20 +0200
From: "Giuseppe Pagnoni" <gpag...@gmail.com>
Subject: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on Asus
P5Q Pro
To: freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID:
<92056ebc0810020932w680...@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear FreeBSD experts,

I am trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a new i386 machine with no OS
installed yet. I start the install process with the 1st CD of the
distribution, and I go through the partition phase with no problem.
However, when I get to the point where I select the installation media
(CD/DVD) it says that it cannot find the CD/DVD.

I read on the FAQ list on the FreeBSD site that this can happen when
the drive is configured as a slave with no master. So I opened up the
box, and I saw that the drive has its own ATAPI/IDE cable/slot on the
motherboard and the jumpers on the drive are set as MASTER.

The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.

I also tried to install Ubuntu and it works fine (but I really would
like to have FreeBSD!).

On an unrelated topic, does anybody know whether the network card
Attansic Technology on Asus P5Q Pro motherboard is compatible with
FreeBSD?

Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated,

thanks in advance

giuseppe

--
Dip. Scienze Biomediche
Sezione Fisiologia
Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Campi 287
I-41100 Modena, Italy
Tel: +39-059-205-5742
Fax: +39-059-205-5363

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:18:48 -0700
From: Jeremy Chadwick <koi...@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro
To: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpag...@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <20081002231...@icarus.home.lan>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a new i386 machine with no OS
> installed yet. I start the install process with the 1st CD of the
> distribution, and I go through the partition phase with no problem.
> However, when I get to the point where I select the installation media
> (CD/DVD) it says that it cannot find the CD/DVD.
>
> I read on the FAQ list on the FreeBSD site that this can happen when
> the drive is configured as a slave with no master. So I opened up the
> box, and I saw that the drive has its own ATAPI/IDE cable/slot on the
> motherboard and the jumpers on the drive are set as MASTER.
>
> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.
>
> I also tried to install Ubuntu and it works fine (but I really would
> like to have FreeBSD!).

The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell
ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly). I wonder if FreeBSD
somehow lacks support for this...

What confuses me is that you can boot the CD media, and FreeBSD will
load kernel modules and a copy of the mini filesystem into memory off
the CD, yet it can't actually find the CD come installation time.

> On an unrelated topic, does anybody know whether the network card
> Attansic Technology on Asus P5Q Pro motherboard is compatible with
> FreeBSD?

Asus was somewhat vague as to what model of Attansic/Atheros IC they
used on the P5Q series. I have one of these boards, so I can assure
you it's an Attansic L1E. It's sometimes referred to as an Atheros
AR8121, AR8113, or AR8114.

FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE has support for this NIC; age(4) is the driver.
7.0 will very likely not support this NIC.

Please download the 7.1-PRERELEASE ISO from here, and try installing
using it instead.

ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200809/

If finding the CD/DVD media still does not work, let us know and I will
try to reproduce the problem on my P5Q SE.

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:39:27 +0200
From: Michael Fuckner <mic...@fuckner.net>
Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro
To: Jeremy Chadwick <koi...@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpag...@gmail.com>,
freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <48E5CC2F...@fuckner.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
>> The drive is a new LG combo drive, I believe GH22LP20 or something close to it.
>>
>> I also tried to install Ubuntu and it works fine (but I really would
>> like to have FreeBSD!).
>
> The only thing I can think of is that the P5Q boards use a Marvell
> ATA/IDE controller (yes, you read that correctly). I wonder if FreeBSD
> somehow lacks support for this...
>
> What confuses me is that you can boot the CD media, and FreeBSD will
> load kernel modules and a copy of the mini filesystem into memory off
> the CD, yet it can't actually find the CD come installation time.

First sectors are read by the bios, the kernel is loaded and executed.
The Kernel doesn't know anything about this Controller, so it can't
access the CD.

My advice is to disable the crappy Marvell Chip and get a SATA-DVD.

I'm sorry, I don't know about the status of the Attansic-Lan. You can
add another supported NIC with Intel Chipset or something else that is
supported.

Regards,
Michael!

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 17:22:57 +0900
From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyu...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro
To: Jeremy Chadwick <koi...@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpag...@gmail.com>,
freebsd-...@FreeBSD.org
Message-ID: <20081003082...@cdnetworks.co.kr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:18:48PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:

[...]

>
> > On an unrelated topic, does anybody know whether the network card
> > Attansic Technology on Asus P5Q Pro motherboard is compatible with
> > FreeBSD?
>
> Asus was somewhat vague as to what model of Attansic/Atheros IC they
> used on the P5Q series. I have one of these boards, so I can assure
> you it's an Attansic L1E. It's sometimes referred to as an Atheros
> AR8121, AR8113, or AR8114.
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE has support for this NIC; age(4) is the driver.
> 7.0 will very likely not support this NIC.
>

If the controller is AR8121/AR8113 PCI-E adapters(also known as
L1E) there is no working driver for FreeBSD. Because the controller
is quite different from its predecessor L1, new driver should be
written for the controller.
It's not feasible for me to write the driver until I can actually
access the hardware. :-(

--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 03:58:28 -0700
From: Jeremy Chadwick <koi...@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: LG combo drive and Attansic Technology ethernet card on
Asus P5Q Pro
To: Pyun YongHyeon <pyu...@gmail.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Pagnoni <gpag...@gmail.com>,
freebsd-...@FreeBSD.org
Message-ID: <20081003105...@icarus.home.lan>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:22:57PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:18:48PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > > On an unrelated topic, does anybody know whether the network card
> > > Attansic Technology on Asus P5Q Pro motherboard is compatible with
> > > FreeBSD?
> >
> > Asus was somewhat vague as to what model of Attansic/Atheros IC they
> > used on the P5Q series. I have one of these boards, so I can assure
> > you it's an Attansic L1E. It's sometimes referred to as an Atheros
> > AR8121, AR8113, or AR8114.
> >
> > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE has support for this NIC; age(4) is the driver.
> > 7.0 will very likely not support this NIC.
> >
>
> If the controller is AR8121/AR8113 PCI-E adapters(also known as
> L1E) there is no working driver for FreeBSD. Because the controller
> is quite different from its predecessor L1, new driver should be
> written for the controller.
> It's not feasible for me to write the driver until I can actually
> access the hardware. :-(

Wow, I was under the impression the L1 and the L1E were identical,
except that the L1E was PCI Express-based vs. PCI-based.

The Attansic L1E stuff is becoming more and more common here on
motherboards in the States.

Yong-Hyeon, I can get you a P5Q SE motherboard and send it your way
(with CPU + memory as well, if need be), if you'd like.

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