Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:56:58 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, "questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pocket Ethernet Adaptor (Parallel) Message-ID: <0103011001450C.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> In-Reply-To: <02b201c0a144$bf947700$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <01022815054504.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c0a144$bf947700$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Doug Young wrote: > The way I check to see if the NIC is properly recognized & configured during > installation is to "pretend" I'm doing an FTP install (whether I am or > otherwise). If the NIC is OK it will be in the list of interfaces .... if > its not there its obviously not a happy little NIC. I'll have a crack at that. > I don't like generic / > asian junk NICs & refuse to have anything to do with them At the time, a PEA was the only option available, and the Genius LAN was the only one I knew about. Worked well, too, at the cost of a printer port (I had to disconnect from the network to print, but That wasn't a real issue for me). -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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