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Hi,

I have a systemboard on which I want to run OBSD 3.8. The on-board NIC
is an nVidia nForce chipset, which isn't listed in the HCL. Any idea if
there's a workaround?

Thank you.

Huub

Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a systemboard on which I want to run OBSD 3.8. The on-board NIC
> is an nVidia nForce chipset, which isn't listed in the HCL. Any idea if
> there's a workaround?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Huub

It works. If for some reason it doesn't work get a Realtek 8139 PCI card for
a few dollars.

gtoomey

> It works. If for some reason it doesn't work get a Realtek 8139 PCI card for
> a few dollars.
>
> gtoomey

If it works, then why says Install it can't connect to the internet? I
filled everything as usual for installing over ftp. When I for verifying
installed Window2000, it didn't indicate a NIC. And 2 brandnew
systemboards having a broken NIC isn't very plausible to me.

Huub <"v.niekerk at freeler.nl"> wrote:
>
> > It works. If for some reason it doesn't work get a Realtek 8139 PCI
> > card for a few dollars.
> >
> > gtoomey
>
> If it works, then why says Install it can't connect to the internet? I
> filled everything as usual for installing over ftp.

you need to read openbsd.org/report.html - this is a useless report.

Huub <"v.niekerk at freeler.nl"> wrote:

>
>> It works. If for some reason it doesn't work get a Realtek 8139 PCI card
>> for a few dollars.
>>
>> gtoomey
>
> If it works, then why says Install it can't connect to the internet? I
> filled everything as usual for installing over ftp. When I for verifying
> installed Window2000, it didn't indicate a NIC. And 2 brandnew
> systemboards having a broken NIC isn't very plausible to me.

I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
megabytes.

After installation, as root type ifconfig (or ifconfig -a, can remember
which). What will show the name openbsd uses for the nic, probably nv0 or
nve0. Then follow the manual.

I've definitely got 3.8 working on an ASUS a7n266-vm in the past 2 weeks.

gtoomey

> I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
> megabytes.
>
> After installation, as root type ifconfig (or ifconfig -a, can remember
> which). What will show the name openbsd uses for the nic, probably nv0 or
> nve0. Then follow the manual.
>
> I've definitely got 3.8 working on an ASUS a7n266-vm in the past 2 weeks.
>
> gtoomey

OK. I've downloaded cd38.iso, burned it and booted it. Looks like
installing goes fine, but it keeps saying bsd.rd isn't installed. After
reboot, it does boot but all directories are empty.
Systemboard: Asus K8N.

Begin <438b17a3@news.comindico.com.au>
On 2005-11-28, Gregory Toomey <nobody@bigpond.com> wrote:
> Huub <"v.niekerk at freeler.nl"> wrote:
>>> It works. If for some reason it doesn't work get a Realtek 8139 PCI card
>>> for a few dollars.

I wouldn't, as they suck. Even the fairly sucky but less so than
realteks can be had for under 15 EUR retail.


>> If it works, then why says Install it can't connect to the internet?
[snip]

This, Huub, is the big question. The cause does not have to be your
network card, but it may be. Unfortunately, we do not have the
information to answer that, only you do.


> I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
> megabytes.

And a couple of times over what you actually need to install just the
one machine. I do feel old, remembering getting mail and news[1] over a
2400 baud modem. It has only been a few years.


[1] fidomail and echomail, actually, but hey.

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> I wouldn't, as they suck. Even the fairly sucky but less so than
> realteks can be had for under 15 EUR retail.
>

Really?

> This, Huub, is the big question. The cause does not have to be your
> network card, but it may be. Unfortunately, we do not have the
> information to answer that, only you do.
>

Ok. Wrong start.

>
>
>>I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
>>megabytes.
>
>
> And a couple of times over what you actually need to install just the
> one machine. I do feel old, remembering getting mail and news[1] over a
> 2400 baud modem. It has only been a few years.
>

On the disposed machine, I easily accessed the internet, selected the
few sets I needed and installed the bunch. Now, testing on 2 operating
systems, somehow the NIC isn't even detected.

This is when booted from CD after creating partitions and labels (manually):

[x] bsd.rd
Get name? (or 'done') [done]
Ready to install sets? [yes]
Getting bsd.rd ...
100% |.......................| 4549 KB 00:02
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done')[cd] done
'bsd' was not installed.
Are you *SURE* your install is complete without 'bsd'? [no]


I hope this shows what my problem is.

Huub <"v.niekerk at freeler.nl"> wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't, as they suck. Even the fairly sucky but less so than
> > realteks can be had for under 15 EUR retail.
> >
>
> Really?
>
> > This, Huub, is the big question. The cause does not have to be your
> > network card, but it may be. Unfortunately, we do not have the
> > information to answer that, only you do.
> >
>
> Ok. Wrong start.
>
> >
> >
> >>I've never installed using ftp, only CD. The CD is only a few hundred
> >>megabytes.
> >
> >
> > And a couple of times over what you actually need to install just the
> > one machine. I do feel old, remembering getting mail and news[1] over a
> > 2400 baud modem. It has only been a few years.
> >
>
> On the disposed machine, I easily accessed the internet, selected the
> few sets I needed and installed the bunch. Now, testing on 2 operating
> systems, somehow the NIC isn't even detected.
>
> This is when booted from CD after creating partitions and labels (manually):
>
> [x] bsd.rd
> Get name? (or 'done') [done]
> Ready to install sets? [yes]
> Getting bsd.rd ...
> 100% |.......................| 4549 KB 00:02
> Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done')[cd] done
> 'bsd' was not installed.
> Are you *SURE* your install is complete without 'bsd'? [no]
>
>
> I hope this shows what my problem is.

the cd38.iso does not contain the file sets. READ
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

Huub <"v.niekerk at freeler.nl"> writes:

> This is when booted from CD after creating partitions and labels (manually):
>
> [x] bsd.rd
> Get name? (or 'done') [done]
> Ready to install sets? [yes]
> Getting bsd.rd ...
> 100% |.......................| 4549 KB 00:02
> Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done')[cd] done
> 'bsd' was not installed.
> Are you *SURE* your install is complete without 'bsd'? [no]

Well, this looks like you downloaded

-r--r--r-- 1 1114 1114 2949120 Sep 16 19:30 cdrom38.fs

which is not a full install disk, only a minimal installer bootstrap.
Using that iso, you can burn a CD which you can boot from and install
from disk, ftp or http. Or of course a separate CD with the actual
install sets on them.

At some point the installer should ask you if you want to do any network
configuration, offering all recognized network interfaces as options.

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