From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 20:33:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA24027 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23981 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16971; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:30:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 23:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L cc: Stefan Esser Subject: HP Vectra VL 5/166 PCI probe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there anything I should watch out for when installing FreeBSD on an HP Vectra VL 5/166? We've been contracted to provide and maintain Internet and UNIX server access for a small university in the U.S. The folks down there went ahead and blew a wad of cash on five HP P166 servers with 4GB of disk each, some ISA Buslogic SCSI controllers I've never heard of, 128MB of EDO, HP 100VG Ethernet NIC's and an HP 100VG switch. I love it when a customer tries to "help out" like this. :-( Griping aside, I know for sure that the 100VG technology isn't support by FreeBSD right now, but I've convinced them to get SMC EtherPower NIC's instead, and replace the Buslogics with Adaptec 2940's. A search of the mailing list archives reveals a problem with the PCI probe code in 2.2-960323-SNAP. Have there been any changes to this part of the code since then? I will likely be installing the 2.2-960612 snapshot. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"