From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 11:06:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA22160 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:06:26 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA22154 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:06:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA03089; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:00:21 -0800 Message-Id: <199503101900.LAA03089@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Andres Vega Garcia cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation Configuration In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:11:15 +0100." <199503101511.QAA20965@django.inria.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 11:00:21 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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). > >>[...] This was what I expected as well, but there were some reports of it not working. Is there anyone on this list with a 3c509b that is working with the current driver? Were there any changes to the driver so it can detect the 3c509b and use the larger buffer? > > >Andres > >------------------------------ >INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France > avega@pax.inria.fr -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================