From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 11 23:24:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10634 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luomat.peak.org (cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.83.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10602 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:24:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@luomat.peak.org) Received: by luomat.peak.org (8.9.0/0.0.0) id CAA14156 for freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 02:24:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199806120624.CAA14156@luomat.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: From: Timothy J Luoma Date: Fri, 12 Jun 98 02:24:23 -0400 To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ _ISA_ supprt? References: Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Author: Dinesh Nair Original-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:08:46 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: > the floppy images downloaded from andrzej's web site or mine both have > out of the box support for the ed and ep drivers. if you were to download > the build scripts, you'd note that the ie driver has been commented out > in the kernel config file. just rebuild it with the driver uncommented. Ah... yes, well, that would require that I had a full installation from which to rebuild from.... which I don't, but am beginning to suspect I will not be able to live without. > > > 'ed' is for the (cheaper, faster) NE2000 and similar. > > > > I heard those were unreliable.... > > i've been using the ed driver on clone NE2000s for quite a while and > there've been no problems to date. these machines are usually heavily > loaded webservers and mailservers. As I mentioned in a followup, I was referring to the NE2000s rather than the driver, but apparently this too was not the case. TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message