j***@bonch.org
2004-06-22 17:41:27 UTC
I apologize in advance for any information I may have left out of this
e-mail. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude
CPi, but encountering some issues. This particular laptop has no
CDROM drive, only floppy, so I'm trying to do a net install with a
3Com 3c589d PCMCIA card (which appears to be supported hardware in
4.10-RELEASE). The only problem is this card is not recognized by the
install. I have some experience using the BSDs (mostly OpenBSD), though
mostly on Sun gear. PC stuff is still a gray area for me. I've tried
disabling what I can in the BIOS to prevent IRQ conflicts, and in the
kernal config screen, no conflicts seem to appear. I get an option
as soon as sysinstall starts to select the memory range pccard uses;
I've tried all options with no success. I still can't select 'ethernet'
or something similar as a network interface. Can anyone offer up any
help and/or advice, and/or links to docs that will help (I've looked
through freebsd-laptop)?
Also, is there a method in FreeBSD to get the dmesg exported to the
floppy drive somehow? I of course want to include the dmesg in this
e-mail, but I'm a n00b so don't know exactly how ;)
In OpenBSD I could do:
'mount -d msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt && dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.txt'
anything similar in freebsd?
Again I greatly appreciate any help provided, and I'll try to get any
additional information requested. Thanks
Jake
e-mail. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE on a Dell Latitude
CPi, but encountering some issues. This particular laptop has no
CDROM drive, only floppy, so I'm trying to do a net install with a
3Com 3c589d PCMCIA card (which appears to be supported hardware in
4.10-RELEASE). The only problem is this card is not recognized by the
install. I have some experience using the BSDs (mostly OpenBSD), though
mostly on Sun gear. PC stuff is still a gray area for me. I've tried
disabling what I can in the BIOS to prevent IRQ conflicts, and in the
kernal config screen, no conflicts seem to appear. I get an option
as soon as sysinstall starts to select the memory range pccard uses;
I've tried all options with no success. I still can't select 'ethernet'
or something similar as a network interface. Can anyone offer up any
help and/or advice, and/or links to docs that will help (I've looked
through freebsd-laptop)?
Also, is there a method in FreeBSD to get the dmesg exported to the
floppy drive somehow? I of course want to include the dmesg in this
e-mail, but I'm a n00b so don't know exactly how ;)
In OpenBSD I could do:
'mount -d msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt && dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.txt'
anything similar in freebsd?
Again I greatly appreciate any help provided, and I'll try to get any
additional information requested. Thanks
Jake