Re: Help Installing on Notebook

[Thomas Graichen <graichen_(_at_)_rzpd_(_dot_)_de>]

Jerry Alexandratos (alexandr_(_at_)_hawk_(_dot_)_pearson_(_dot_)_udel_(_dot_)_edu) wrote:
: Well, work just provided me with this nifty new Micron TransPort
: notebook computer.  Of course I'm planning on trashing the harddrive and
: installing a real OS on it.

: I was just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers.  I want to
: install via ftp from my other OBSD box.  I can't however get the book
: kernel to recognize the PC CARD 3COM 3c589 ethernet card.

: In fact, the link light doesn't even come on.  (I do know that it does
: turn on under Win95).  My guess is that the Cirrus PCIC to PCI bridge
: isn't getting configured correctly (well that and the bootup messages
: says that none of the pci0 devs are configured).

: Okay, so here's where I get flakier than usual.  What exactly do I have
: to change when I bootup with a -c options.  I've always worked on
: desktop machines before, so this is all *really* new to me.

: I'm sure I haven't provided all the necessary nuggets of info that
: everyone would like.  If I'm missing something, I'll let you know what
: I'm getting.

try to set the port for pcicmaster0 to 0x3000 - this worked for me (together
with disabling one of the pcic's which was on irq 12) - tell me if that 
worked for you (it's not a very nice solution but a working hack)

t

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