Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:47:53 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah@nc.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs Message-ID: <000401c12c3e$c9f42620$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B859CC7.6FFDAD40@nc.rr.com>
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Older NE2000 cards were NOT plug and play and needed either jumpers or a DOS utility to be configured to port/interrupt vectors. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nabeel S. >Kandah >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:16 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs > > >I am trying to revive a bunch of old IBM Eduquest machines, those >self-contained monitor/CPU beasts sold by the millions to schools across > >america. I am almost positive they have in them ne2000 compatible cards, > >all ISA for sure. Here is what I am doing: >the eduquest: 20 MB RAM - 514 MB hard drive > >disc one of FreeBSD 4.3, boot machine with it. >then the mfsroot disk. >I configure the kernel visually, no conflicts, I use the ed0 module, >default values 0x280 irq 10 >I set up a FreeBSD 4.3 machine as an NFS server with /etc/exports >looking like /cdrom -ro 192.168.1.3 >I mount /cdrom and start mountd and nfsd. rpcinfo -p tells me all is >working on the nfs server. > >so on the eduquest, I get to the point where I choose the install >method: NFS, fill in the information (both machines are connected via a >crossover cable) but there is no ed0 choice! only a SLIP and PPP choice >for the NFS install. I am stumped. My students are getting into learning > >Linux, but I want to expose them to another Unix variant. Thanks > >NS Kandah > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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