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I would suspect your network card first. I have a card that I know is
ne2000 compatible but doesn't work on the z50 for whatever reason.  I
believe the timing problem you are refering to is the one that messed
with the cf cards so that they weren't recognized and the machine
wouldn't boot, so I don't think that is your problem. See if you can get
another network card and try with that.

Jeff


On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 10:19, Florian Cramer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the following problems installing both NetBSD 1.5.3 and NetBSD
> 1.6 on an IBM z50 with 48 MB RAM, a NE2000-compatible
> 10/100 Mbit 16bit PCMCIA Ethernet adaptor and a 256 MB CF card:
> 
> - The installation kernel boots ok & detects the Ethernet card, the 
>   first installation steps including partitioning/formatting the CF card
>   proceed smoothly.
> 
> - The installation fails to fetch the installation tarballs. Let me
>   specify:
>   + Networking parameters are correctly defined, pings to other hosts
>     work as they should.
>   + The installer manages to open an FTP connection: The prompt of the
>     server appears, "250 CWD command successful" appears five times.
>   + Next messages:
> 
>     local: kern-GENERIC.tgz remote: kern-GENERIC.tgz
>     500 EPSV not understood
>     227 Entering Passive Mode (130,133,1,100,188,61)
> 
>   + The FTP program then opens a binary connection, receives
>     kern-GENERIC.tgz, gets stuck at 0% transfer rate and times out
>     after a while
> 
> - The error is reproducible with various NetBSD FTP mirrors I tried. 
> - Timeouts also occur when I try to install by NFS.
> - Outside sysinst, I manage to download small (ASCII) files by FTP,
>   but get the same problems with larger (binary or ASCII) files.
> 
> Is it possible that I got hit by the timing problems (?) with z50 and
> PCMCIA NICs I read in the archive of this list? If so, is there a
> patched installation kernel for z50? 
> 
> Sorry if I made some stupid mistake (I'm a NetBSD newbie coming from
> Debian GNU/Linux).
> 
> -F

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Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>