Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560

[Karl-Petter Åkesson]

Hi everyone,

I just tried to install the 5.0-RC2 on one of my Thinkpad 560s but was not successful. Previously FreeBSD 4.x has always worked just fine to isntall on this machine. I think the problem is that the driver to my network card does not get loaded. I'm just a user of FreeBSD so I'm not fully into the exact steps of the boot and what gets done at certain times but these are my guesses...

The configuration of tha machine is:
Thinkpad 560, 64Mb memory, 20Gb HD set as slave, a 128Mb PCMCIA flashcard and a PCMCIA 3Com 3C589C networkcard.

According to the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-RC2/HARDWARE.TXT my network card should be supported but when I have chosen Passive FTP as installation medium and is about to setup the network I only get three options:
lp0 Parallel Port IP (PLIP) peer connection
sl0 SLIP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1)
ppp0 PPP inteface on device /dev/cuua0 (COM1)

It seesm that the drivers for the networkcard are not loaded and therefore I only get these three options. Another clue that points in this direction is that everytime sysinstall starts it complains about:
Loading module if_awi.ko failed
Baystack 660 and others

The (awi) driver is for AMD Am79C930 and Harris (Intersil) based 802.11 cards but I do not have any of those installed so I can't understand why it complains about that. But I guess since it fails, there are no other drivers are load after that point of time and thus my (ep) driver is not loaded, correct ? Can I somehow check what drivers are loaded? I thought the boot text gave that information but I can not find any information about any awi device so why should sysinstall complain?

The only other thing that could be a problem that I could identify are a number of unknowns in the boot sequence. Just after the Generic ISA VGA I get these:

unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0600> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <IBM0070> can't assign resources (port)


Best Regards,
Kalle
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Karl-Petter Åkesson
SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB
http://www.sics.se/~kalle/contact.html


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