From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 02:13:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA25010 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:13:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA25005 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:13:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA07103; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:13:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 02:13:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mailist PostOffice cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linksys Ether16 LAN Card support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Mailist PostOffice wrote: > Subject: Does FreeBSD support NE2000 compatable Ether16 LAN card? > > OS: 2.1 Walnut Creek CDROM > -------------------------- > > I'm trying to install a Linksys Ether16 LAN Card (NE2000 Compatable) > into V2.1 and not getting good results. Could someone please tell me: > > 1) Does this card work on FBSD 2.1? (it's a PnP card) It's not mentioned > as officially supported, but as an NE2000 compatable, I suppose I can > cross my fingers and hope. I didn't think the LinkSys's were NE2000 compatible. Are you sure they are? You will need to disable PnP since FreeBSD supports PnP only on certain devices, and network cards aren't one of them. Or else figure out where your PnP BIOS put it. > 2) Can the irq and memory addressing be changed from the default > values listed in the config file? Yes, type '-c' at the Boot: prompt to enter UserConfig, or when you're rebuilding the kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major