Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:16:01 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Jon <whitehat@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation Message-ID: <19991004001601.I35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <37F6E4E1.9784895@home.com> References: <37F6E4E1.9784895@home.com>
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On [19991003 08:18], Jon (whitehat@home.com) wrote: >I recently bought the 4 CD distribution package of FreeBSD 3.2, and I >have a couple of questions. One: does it support SMC Ultra ethernet >cards? Or specificly the SMC EtherEZ 8416T? Second, will it autodetect >my hardware? Oh, and the most important question: can I make it so I use >Bootmagic as my bootloader, not the default FreeBSD bootloader? If so, >how do I configure it? It would be even better if FreeBSD could just >boot off a floppy...and not use a bootloader. Please respond ASAP...I >want to install it as soon as possible. We do support a number of Ethernet cards of SMC which seems awfully close to your's. Could you specify any other type numbers of the chips on the board? I will look for any specs and see if this board is supported. If you have installed FreeBSD by now by chance and have booted with the card could you do a pciconf -l and mail the output? Yes, it will autodetect your hardware, to a certain degree. Please see the handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook for information about making your own kernel to include support for things which we don't support out of the box. And don't be put of by it. Once you done it, you will like it ;) HTH, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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