Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:31:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Keith Bartholomew <kb9@dana.ucc.nau.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatible hardware Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000313202726.15268D-100000@mail> In-Reply-To: <38CD8FE0.BE42D251@dana.ucc.nau.edu>
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Keith Bartholomew wrote: > About a year ago I tried to put FreeBSD on an old 486 computer I got a > hold of. I was not able to use FreeBSD as a server though because it > would not recognize the Ethernet card. The Ethernet card is a Kingston > NE2000 compatible PNP ISA card. As far as I was able to figure out it > was the PNP aspect of it that gave me problems. I have been looking at > ISA Ethernet cards and they all seem to be PNP. Will FreeBSD now > recognize PNP cards or do I need to find a non PNP NIC for it to work? It would probably be simpler to disable PnP in the machine's BIOS, if it lets you do that. I'm sending this mail courtesy of an NE2000 ISA card. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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