From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 19:10:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9944B37B406 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([64.228.155.124]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010824021005.CKJR27547.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:10:05 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7O27Tc89388; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:07:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004f01c12c41$20473b00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Nabeel S. Kandah" , References: <3B859CC7.6FFDAD40@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:04:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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