Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:04:35 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah@nc.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs Message-ID: <004f01c12c41$20473b00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3B859CC7.6FFDAD40@nc.rr.com>
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> 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, It's possible. Although I think that most of these systems were sold with IBM's "PC Network" NICs (a networking scheme using a 4-conductor twisted pair (two pairs) with RJ11 connectors, arranged in a daisy-chain fashion with the last station having a terminator, much like 10Base2/coax), I've seen numerous references that the "IBM Baseband Adapter" aka "IBM PC Network Adapter" is really an Ungermann-Bass PC-NIC card, which is an Ethernet card. All of the ancient DOS packet driver READMEs have these cards using *no* port address, IRQ 5 and memory address 0xd800. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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