From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 07:11:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA16295 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 07:11:50 -0800 Received: from django.inria.fr (django.inria.fr [138.96.24.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA16271 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 07:11:43 -0800 Received: by django.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.10) id QAA20965; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:11:16 +0100 Message-Id: <199503101511.QAA20965@django.inria.fr> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Configuration In-reply-to: your message of Thu, 09 Mar 1995 10:06:46 PST. Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:11:15 +0100 From: Andres Vega Garcia Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: >>To any one with answers: >> >>Ok, I finally got around to actually loading in FreeBSD. I loaded it once >>and everythnig seem to be just fine. I decided to load it a second time >>because I added a Ether net card that I did not have the first time around. >>(Some told me I would have to manually make changes to my kernel if I added >>it after I installed the BSD. My first Question is is that true? >[...] >Boot the kernel with the "-c" option. You will fall into the "user-config" >menu where you can manually set the baseaddress and offset of the ep0 probe. >Since you have a 3C509b, the driver may not work correctly for your card, >but it is worth a shot. From previous post about the 3c509b, I understood it's just a 3c509 + a bigger buffer, thus the driver should work the same than for the 3c509 (yet with a bigger buffer one can expect a better performance). >[...] Andres ------------------------------ INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France avega@pax.inria.fr