Bug 20286

Summary: FreeBSD installer cannot detect my 3C905B network, so I cannot do network install
Product: Base System Reporter: fiucha <fiucha>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description fiucha 2000-07-29 15:00:01 UTC 
I try to install FreeBSD on my proxy/firewall machine at home. It is a Pentium 100 with ALI chipset. I have a 3COM 3C905B network card. I want to do a network install over FTP from my Linux workstation but when I try to specify the media I get as choices only paralel and serial connections.

The card does not appear at boot (xl0...).

I am using FreeBSD since version 3.2 (but on different machines) and I succesfully installed FreeBSD 4.0 Release Candidate over the network in a machine using the same network board.

The network board is fine since I have installed (and working normally) OpenBSD 2.7 on the same machine.

How-To-Repeat: Try to do a network install using a 3COM 3C905B network card in the client.
Comment 1 bill fumerola freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-07-29 19:44:31 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

There are thousands upon thousands of machines that have this 
card and I've never seen a problem with it. I just installed 
3 myself off of the xl0 driver. 

You might have better luck with questions@freebsd.org, this 
forum is mainly to report specific, reproducable bugs.
Comment 2 alex 2000-07-31 08:31:35 UTC 
Thus spake fiucha@crosswinds.net (fiucha@crosswinds.net):

> The network board is fine since I have installed (and working normally) OpenBSD 2.7 on the same machine.

Could you maybe send the output of pciconf or the equivalent tools on
OpenBSD or Linux, to show which chip-id's the card have?
Maybe its a smooth variant our code doesn't know yet.

Please send it as reply to freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, using the
same Subject: line.

Thanks

Alex
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cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory
Comment 3 fiucha 2000-08-01 05:25:34 UTC 
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Alexander Langer wrote:

> Thus spake fiucha@crosswinds.net (fiucha@crosswinds.net):
> 
> > The network board is fine since I have installed (and working normally) OpenBSD 2.7 on the same machine.
> 
> Could you maybe send the output of pciconf or the equivalent tools on
> OpenBSD or Linux, to show which chip-id's the card have?
> Maybe its a smooth variant our code doesn't know yet.

On OpenBSD 2.7 I did a search for "*pci* and I have found
/usr/X11/bin/scanpci

It's output:

--------------cut here---------------------
PCI says configuration type 2

PCI probing configuration type 2

pci bus 0x0 slot at 0xc000, vendor 0x10b9 device 0x1451
 ALI M1451

pci bus 0x0 slot at 0xc200, vendor 0x10b9 device 0x1449
 ALI M1449

pci bus 0x0 slot at 0xc300, vendor 0x10b7 device 0x9050
 3COM 3C905 100bTX

pci bus 0x0 slot at 0xc400, vendor 0x1013 device 0x00b8
 Cirrus Logic GD 5446

pci bus 0x0 slot at 0xc600, vendor 0x1095 device 0x0640
 CMD 640A
--------------cut here---------------------

Hope this helps,
florin