From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 05:02:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06725 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:02:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06708 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24982; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:00:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma024949; Thu, 3 Sep 98 07:00:17 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA22135; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:00:16 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:00:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Orlando Andico cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3c905B support in 2.2.7-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We're long-time Linux fans but we'd like to try FreeBSD. We're trying to > do a network install, however, the boot floppy does not recognize the 3com > 3c905B card in our computer. This also happened with the Red Hat 5.1 No. The 2.2.7-RELEASE did not have drivers for the 905B. This was recently intregrated into the -stable branch of development. > page and modifying the kernel image. However, being a BSD newbie, I don't > know how to do this for FreeBSD. No need to do this. Simply download the latest release off of releng22.freebsd.org. It should include the new xl driver developed by Bill Paul. > We'd like to try using FreeBSD because we have some rather large boxes > doing Squid proxy work (512MB memory) and I had this idea that FreeBSD > "works better" on big, heavily loaded boxes than Linux (or maybe, we just > don't know how to tweak /proc/sys/kernel on Linux!!) Cool. Good Luck. Nathan Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message