Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:36:40 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <19970721193640.30062@gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <E0wqM6C-0001jA-00@rover.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 11:18:16AM -0600 References: <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> <199707191221.FAA23412@freefall.freebsd.org> <199707191434.AAA14215@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> <E0wqM6C-0001jA-00@rover.village.org>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I have a whole pile of old PC parts that I'm using to build multiple
> routers. FreeBSD is making all of this possible. I don't know if I'm
> a typical case, but I do know what has frustrated me with this
> interprise to date. This pile of PC parts are free, and I'm doing
> this in time I'd otherwise not be billing, and I don't have a lot of
> cash to buy an extra ethernet card (x 5) and an extra SCSI controller
> (x 5) and bunch of other things that people seem to tell me are cheap
> enough to buy. FreeBSD works really well on these machines.
>
> My biggest complaint is the configuration of ethernet devices. It
> would be nice if there were some easier way to do this automatically.
A question. The visual kernel config mode allows you to configure
the IRQ's, I/O addresses and such ... even if you have older cards.
All what Jordan wants to do is to choose more proper default settings.
IRQ 5 for sound cards and IRQ 10 for ethernet interfaces ...
But you should still be able to ,boot -c' and to reconfigure the
default settings by disabling the sound driver and using IRQ 5
for the network card.
This change should make it more easier to install PC's, that
now typically come with a soundcard and such ... You experts,
who still make routers out of 386er machines, _know_ how to
use the -c option ... But the newcomers with P100 and soundcard
possibly not ...
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