From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 14:21:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12774 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.clark.net (qmailr@gargoyle.clark.net [168.143.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA12765 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21062 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jul 1997 21:28:39 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 17:28:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul D. Robertson" X-Sender: proberts@gargoyle To: Andreas Klemm cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Andreas Klemm wrote: > Network cards are so inexpensive in nowadays ... I think people > won't have to use the 8 Bit ones never more. And if you need, you > can change the values in visual kernel config ... > > I think IRQ 5 for network cards is only needed in rare cases. 4 of the last 5 NICs I've purchased have been IRQ5, as well as the last one that someone gave me. > IRQ 10 is a more sane default. Or do you all wanna say, that > most people install FreeBSD without X11 on a 80386 form 1990 ?! I'd say that most people choose older, cheaper hardware for a home network, and most people use FreeBSD at home. > Is FreeBSD turing PC's into workstations or is it only used > for lamer PC hardware ?! The first machine I put it on was a 386/25. If not for that, I certainly wouldn't have purchased a K6 to run FreeBSD on. Yes, the 386 is still running just fine, 'lamer hardware' that it is. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts@clark.net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." PSB#9280