From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 15:35:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1419B37B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:35:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-11.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.140]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29479; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:03:41 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "Doug Young" , "questions" Subject: Re: Pocket Ethernet Adaptor (Parallel) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:56:58 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain References: <01022815054504.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c0a144$bf947700$847e03cb@apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <02b201c0a144$bf947700$847e03cb@apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0103011001450C.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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