From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 13 23:44:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA20492 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA20442 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA07796; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:43:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Hinrich Eilts cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Etherexpress 10/pro In-Reply-To: <199704131310.PAA24185@tor.muc.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Hinrich Eilts wrote: > I have some trouble to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 with a Etherexpress 10/pro > if this card is using PnP. It will be detected at boot-time and ifconfig > is ok, but using 'ping' fails, after the '56 data bytes' nothing happens. FreeBSD does not support PnP, so you must disable it and hand-set the settings with the setup program provided with the card. I don't even know if the Pro/10 is even supported. Comments? > If PnP of Etherexpress is disabled, it work, but the computer have to run > W95 too, and this will fail with PnP disabled (the motherboard is a > Gigabyte GA586ATM/P256, which has no support for non-PnP ISA cards leading > to resource conflicts if the Etherexpress is in non-PnP mode). THen you have a bigger problem than FreeBSD can support :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major