From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 20:04:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03001 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:04:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02933 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA01324; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:03:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Elliot Finley cc: "Aaron D. Gifford" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asus P2L97 motherboard In-Reply-To: <34d05a38.23217652@castlenet.com> 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Elliot Finley wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:14:33 -0700, you wrote: > > I'm using a P2L97 with a Pentium II 233... Works great! I'm using a > Adaptec 2940UW with it. I tried the RealTek 10/100 NIC (NE2000) with > the 8129 chip... Didn't work, FreeBSD couldn't detect it. So I had to > go back to the RealTek 10 (NE2000) with the 8029 chip... Yuck. You're hindering yourself with that NE2000... the Digital-based cards (dayna, kingston, etc) are heads better and about the same price. Get 'em while you can before Compaq shuts the door on them... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major