From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Nov 10 10:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA19106 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA19096 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (tc-if3-20.ida.net [208.141.171.125]) by srv.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA03980; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:47:15 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 11:46:42 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: Timothy J Luoma cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium supported? (and a couple of other newbie questions) In-Reply-To: <199711101745.MAA04350@luomat.peak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Motherboard: Tyan Tomcat III P5 > Processor: P-133 (``classic'') > Sound Card: SoundBlaster16 at dma channel 1 irq 5 > Ethernet card: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ ISA at port 0x300 irq 10 > Pointing Dev: PS/2 Logitech MarbleMan Trackball (will this work??) > CD-ROM: Sony CDU76s (4x) > Controller: Adaptec 2940 Host Adapter found at Bus 0 Device 19 > > Weirdness: The Ethernet card listed above is actually the second Ethernet > card (ie en1 not en0). > > Yes, I have 2 Ethernet cards. One is en0 which connects my old computer > (without a real address) to my new computer (which has a real address). The > second one is en1 which connects my new computer to the Internet via a cable > modem (I was planning a net-install of FreeBSD) Has your cable company given you a fixed IP address? I have heard some cable modems work with DHCP. I haven't done a net install of FreeBSD, but I think you need a fixed IP address. In practice, the DHCP addresses don't change for weeks or months I have heard, but you still need to know what the address is. If you are in the States and this is your first FreeBSD installation, a cd-rom makes things a lot easier. They used to even ship a book by Greg Lehey with the cd giving alot of useful install information, but I don't know if this is the case anymore. Charles Mott