From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 10:58:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29214 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29198; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id TAA14504; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:45:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id TAA04037; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:36:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970721193640.30062@gtn.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:36:40 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Warner Losh Cc: Michael Smith , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... References: <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> <199707191221.FAA23412@freefall.freebsd.org> <199707191434.AAA14215@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: ; from Warner Losh on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 11:18:16AM -0600 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ... -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html