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From: jimd@dutton4.it.su.edu
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Subject: FBSD-2.2.6 installation hangs after finding "lp0:"
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>Number:         7263
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FBSD-2.2.6 installation hangs after finding "lp0:"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 12 14:00:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sun Aug 16 12:28:41 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Aug 16 12:35:58 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Jim Dutton
>Release:        2.2.6-RELEASE
>Organization:
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
>Environment:
Dell OptiPlex-GX1 with:
PentiumII-Pro (400Mhz?), 128MB RAM, (E)IDE 4GB Maxtor HD, 32x Toshiba (ATAPI) CD-ROM,
Iomega Zip 100, EtherlinkXL 10/100Mb (3C905B-TX), Dell 1025TM monitor, ATI-3D RAGE Pro
with 4MB SGRAM, Pheonix Systems(?) BIOS A01, Soundblaster Pro 3.2,
Yamaha OPL-3 FM (S/W synthesizer)
>Description:
Installation boot from Atapi CD-ROM stops at "Probing devices, please wait....". Alternate
console display shows:

	DEBUG: ioctl(3,TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success)
	DEBUG: Found a network device named lp0

Scrolling back shows 128MB RAM recognized , 6 PCI/ISA chips, "no driver
assigned" to the 3C905B-TX, HD/CDROM/mouse/floppy all found, buggy Zip
drive (wfd0:) found, "npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard", "npx0: INT 16
interface", "rootfs is 1440 Kbyte compiled in MFS", "/stand/sysinstall
running as init on vty0"

Nothing happens at this point. Currently there are no other NIC's and
the 3C905B-TX is integrated onto the motherboard so it cannot be removed.

I built a custom 2.2.6 kernel which included pnp0 and MAXMEM on another machine and tried to use it with
FBSDBOOT (from a DOS partition). It would stop after the device probes and a blinking cursor
would appear.
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot FBSD kernel. 
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Jim Dutton <jimd@siu.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jimd@su.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/7263: FBSD-2.2.6 installation hangs after finding "lp0:"
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:14:10 -0500

 Disabling LPT0: prevents "lp0:" from being found, but the installation
 still comes to a halt at the "Probing devices, please wait..." message.

From: Jim Dutton <jimd@siu.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jimd@su.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/7263: FBSD-2.2.6 installation hangs after finding "lp0:"
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:59:38 -0500

 Disconnecting the ribbon cable from the Iomega ZIP drive appears to have
 corrected the "hang" problem (sigh!).
 
 I would recommend that FAQ-2.23 be changed from "The boot floppy starts
 but hangs..." to "The installation boot starts but hangs...", since the
 recommendation in this FAQ question has gotten me around the "hang"
 problem, but I am doing from CD-ROM.

From: Jim Dutton <jimd@siu.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jimd@su.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/7263: FBSD-2.2.6 installation hangs after finding "lp0:"
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:00:09 -0500

 After disconnecting the installed ZIP drive, I have been able to
 successfully install FBSD-2.2.6 (now if I can just get the 3C905B-TX to
 work....).
 
 You may CLOSE this problem. Thank you.
 
 
 -- 
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wpaul 
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 16 12:28:41 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  

FYI: The 3Com Etherlink XL adapters, including the 3c905B, are now
supported by the XL (if_xl) driver, which has just been imported to 
FreeBSD-current. It should be merged to RELENG_2_2 in about a week. 
You canbtain driver source code for FreeBSD 3.0 and 2.2.x along with 
instructions on how to build a new kernel image with the XL driver 
at http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/3Com. 

-Bill 
>Unformatted:
