Re: fxp doesn't work on i386

["Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com>]

At 10:25 +0900 on 2/17/02, Kazutoshi Kubota wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> I've installed OpenBSD 3.0 on my PC, but I have a problem.  The fxp
> device on that PC works well on the installer (start up from CD-ROM),
> although it doesn't work on normal boot.  Both the GENERIC kernel and
> my cutomize one say `fxp0: device timeout'.
...
> How do I solve this problem?


You might have fxp on your motherboard (1 of my machines), or you might be
using a multi-port fxp card (5 of my machines :-), and the device is not
being detected or set up perfectly.  The workaround for it is easy.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=fxp0+device+timeout+openbsd>
<http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0109/msg00718.html>

man pcibios, man config, then:

# cp -p /bsd /bsd.old
# config -e -f /bsd
...
ukc> disable pcibios
ukc> quit
...
# reboot

Good luck!


Richard