Re: newbie documentation (was: Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card))

2007-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Franks wrote: > I have another section to add to my previous post: > > At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a > critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or > similar, and reach the following upon rebo

Re: newbie documentation (was: Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card))

2007-01-21 Thread Steve Franks
I have another section to add to my previous post: At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or similar, and reach the following upon reboot: "" "Press enter for /bin/sh:" To recover: 0. press enter 1. cd /e

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Franks
On 1/16/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-01-16 15:47, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, this is what I have so for. It was a bit late at night, so I appologise > if my tone is a bit silly at times...where do we go from here? Steve [snip nicely written stuff

Re: Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
On 1/7/07, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-01-07 08:54, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies on not hitting the list. Alyays forget to reply-all. No problem. I just didn't copy the list because I wasn't sure I should. > So, I figured I'd try to fix the saf

Re: no ath0 on new system with good card

2007-01-07 Thread Steve Franks
Apologies on not hitting the list. Alyays forget to reply-all. So, I figured I'd try to fix the safe-mode end of things on my own, and I found a post several years old (looked like it even could have been yours) about safemode, which doesn't show up anywhere on the freebsd site. So I did what i

Contributing to FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: no ath0 on new system with good card)

2007-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-07 08:54, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies on not hitting the list. Alyays forget to reply-all. No problem. I just didn't copy the list because I wasn't sure I should. > So, I figured I'd try to fix the safe-mode end of things on my own, > and I found a post severa

Re: no ath0 on new system with good card

2007-01-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-06 10:08, Steve Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ath0 card working fine in one system. I put it in the > other, kldload if_ath, but no ath0. kldload appears sucessful, > because if you try it again, if says file already present. I notice > my pcmcia appears to show up suc

no ath0 on new system with good card

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks
I have an ath0 card working fine in one system. I put it in the other, kldload if_ath, but no ath0. kldload appears sucessful, because if you try it again, if says file already present. I notice my pcmcia appears to show up sucesfully when I boot, but I get no output on tty0 when I plug in the