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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:43:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Hinrich Eilts <eilts@tor.muc.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Etherexpress 10/pro
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970413234257.7719H-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199704131310.PAA24185@tor.muc.de>

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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




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