HI EVERYBODY! > HI DR. NICK! I just installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE on my second hard drive. I downloaded the disc1 installation ISO from freebsd.org and burned it to a CDR with burnatonce. I would have preferred a network install via FTP, but the installer could not configure my ethernet connection properly with DHCP. I installed from the CD instead but I would like to do so again with FTP. I do not understand why sysinstall did not work with DHCP on my ethernet connection. The console said "watchdog timeout" several times:

dc0: watchdog timeout
dc0: watchdog timeout
dc0: watchdog timeout
dc0: watchdog timeout

It works on everything else, including all Linux distros that I have. Could there be a problem with the CD? A corrupt ISO image? A bad burn? I appreciate any help you can give me, Ben

Sounds like the fBSD driver for your NIC is broken. (or wrong driver?)

Or perhaps IRQ conflicts...

One of those.

Quote: Original post by C-Junkie
Sounds like the fBSD driver for your NIC is broken. (or wrong driver?)

Or perhaps IRQ conflicts...

One of those.

I hope not. Windows and all versions of Linux that I've tried do just fine with this, so I suppose it's a driver problem. For the time being, I may go with FreeBSD 4.11 (though downloading ISOs for operating system installer CDs is *TIRING*).

PS: You are one fast typist, Mr. C-Junkie Man.