can't see nuthin'

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Tuesday 12 July 2005 04:04 pm, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Monday 11 July 2005 11:08 pm, KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
> > > > i can't see any of my devices with freeBSD 6.0  umm..
> > > >
> > > > tell me what to tell you because i have no clue.
> > >
> > > First off, what actual problem are you having?  What do you mean by
> > > "can't see any of my devices".  The dmesg you posted shows the kernel
> > > detecting lots of devices.
> >
> > okay sorry.. i can see my hard drive but i am not sure i can see
> > my modem or my wireless modem and right now the biggie is the
> > SD card reader.. i thought maybe the complete listing of dmesg
> > that i sent but some 'bot i think told me the email was too big..
> > would tell you there are lots of problems
>
> Ok, first off, can you provide the output of 'pciconf -l'?

BUILD: 165 lines, 4323 characters.
Path: /usr/ports/distfiles
(root at www) 111> pciconf -l
agp0 at pci0:0:0:  class=0x060000 card=0x186a1043 chip=0x33408086 rev=0x21
hdr=0x00
pcib1 at pci0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x33418086 rev=0x21
hdr=0x01
uhci0 at pci0:29:0:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x18691043 chip=0x24c28086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
uhci1 at pci0:29:1:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x18691043 chip=0x24c48086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
uhci2 at pci0:29:2:        class=0x0c0300 card=0x18691043 chip=0x24c78086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
ehci0 at pci0:29:7:        class=0x0c0320 card=0x18681043 chip=0x24cd8086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
pcib2 at pci0:30:0:        class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x24488086
rev=0x83
hdr=0x01
isab0 at pci0:31:0:        class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x24cc8086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
atapci0 at pci0:31:1:      class=0x01018a card=0x18691043 chip=0x24ca8086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
none0 at pci0:31:5:        class=0x040100 card=0x17131043 chip=0x24c58086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
none1 at pci0:31:6:        class=0x070300 card=0x18261043 chip=0x24c68086
rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
none2 at pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x17721043 chip=0x4e501002 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
bge0 at pci2:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x17351043 chip=0x169c14e4 rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
cbb0 at pci2:1:0:  class=0x060700 card=0x18641043 chip=0x04761180 rev=0xac
hdr=0x02
cbb1 at pci2:1:1:  class=0x060700 card=0x18641043 chip=0x04761180 rev=0xac
hdr=0x02
fwohci0 at pci2:1:2:       class=0x0c0010 card=0x18671043 chip=0x05521180
rev=0x04
hdr=0x00
none3 at pci2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10008086 chip=0x42238086 rev=0x05
hdr=0x00
Path: /usr/ports/distfiles
(root at www) 112>


>It looks like your
> modem is a PCI device.  If it is a winmodem, then it might not be supported
> (some winmodems do work with some drivers available in ports).  Also, are you
> trying to use a PCMCIA card in your first slot?

i don't know what i am doing.  the SD card came with the puter my
friend rudy installed freeBSD 6.0 on a 11GB ad0s1 partition i
created.. the first day he was about to partition my disk but
then he realized i was going to be all fidgety.. so that night
i did it myself.. i only allowed myself 11GB out of my 60 GB
disk for ados1 so he installed freeBSD 6.0 on that the next day.. i have
mozilla i thought he put java but i don't think its werking..
he said he was putting MySQL i haven't really tried to look
at that.. apache but i have never started up an apache server
but i have a book called "the apache bible" that i never
looked at..

the day after that maybe i went to San Francisco State University
to try to do my assignment for a graduate course called
distributed systems.  i dropped the class last semester and
the prof agreed to help me werk on the assignment this summer
so i could take the course in fall.. we have to install a
middleware called MICO (mini corba but now "mico is corba"
because it has grown).. that didn't werk, and he told me i
needed a stable version of freeBSD.. (i have 6.0 on partition
ad0s1)..

therefore.. i went to rudy's again but just browsed around
and took the freeBSD 5.4 and took it home for the weekend..
i created a second bootable ad0s2 partion on the HD that was
9GB and i guess successfully installed freeBSD 5.4 but i didn't
know how to properly configure the DHCP stuff or whatever..

so the next day i brought it back to rudy's and he fixed
the ethernet thingy so i can now boot DHCP either at
rudy's office or the SFSU undergraduate lab with ethernet
connection.

i continued reading grog lehey's book "the complete FreeBSD" and
realized that although avoiding subpartitioning with a
root only "/" all in one partition was okay given i wasn't
planning on having a bunch of lusers log onto my machine,
i realized not having swap was sort of bad so i created a
third partion ad0s3 non bootable and sucessfully created
my swap partition by modifying /etc/fstab  i tested it
by creating a c program that malloced 514000000 bytes (i have
512MB RAM) and did the command grog said it werked. so now
i don't waste the extra disk space redundantly on both
ad0s1 and ad0s2

then i found out that in the side of my puter, there is like
a PCMCIA flash memory card reader that operates on a
high bandwith PCI bus (i am reading the small hardware
manual that came with the puter ) and accepts several
different types of small mass storage devices.. i have
took the little plastic plug out and stuck my 256MB
foto card in and left it there since.. i don't know
how to mount the thing.


> Also, what kind of device is
> your SD card reader?

i hope i answered it above..

> Is it built in or is it some sort of cardbus device,
> etc.?

it is a laptop.. it is sort of built in i guess

>
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