From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 18 10:28:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2FBD37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:28:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (216-93-126-013.mdmmi.voyager.net [216.93.126.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF58443E65 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 10:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@TechServSys.com) Received: from home (william [192.168.10.2]) by home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (8.8.8/SCO5) with ESMTP id NAA03350; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:28:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "bill" To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 13:30:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: which nic (new network install) Message-ID: <3D5FA16F.10277.BB10C6@localhost> References: <3D5F8D2C.32558.6BE7C6@localhost> In-reply-to: <1029669917.253.12.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Aug 2002 at 11:25, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 16:03, bill wrote: > > I am attempting a network install. > > I have loaded the kernel and mfs root filesystem from floppy and am looking > > at the configuration. > > > > I have either an Intel Pro/10 (currently installed) or a 3com 3c509 card > > available in this 486 isa motherboard with 32 Mb of ram. > > > > The configuration screen lists neither. > > can I use either of these nics for the install ? > > if so,how. > > > > -bill- > > The configuration screen lists just a fraction of the drivers available > for FreeBSD. The reason they are there is those particular drivers have > a nasty habit of hanging machines when they probe. Most of the time you > can leave them in and there won't be any trouble. Have no fear, the > installer will pick up your cards. > > Josh Oh, here I go again trying to do it all the hard way. You are absolutely correct, it even found out it was on a nonstandard io address. Many thanks -bill- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message