Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:20:48 -0400 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs Message-ID: <20010824022249.45EB637B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:16:07 -0400, Nabeel S. Kandah wrote: >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. those might be old IBM token ring 16/4 cards. I'd pop the cover and look. either that or you'll have to change the icq/addr settings- try 0x300 irq 10, 0x280 irq 11, or 0x300 irq 3. those are the most common settings i've seen. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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