From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 17:31: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD8F37B689 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:31:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA15364; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:31:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:31:04 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@mail To: Keith Bartholomew Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatible hardware In-Reply-To: <38CD8FE0.BE42D251@dana.ucc.nau.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Keith Bartholomew wrote: > About a year ago I tried to put FreeBSD on an old 486 computer I got a > hold of. I was not able to use FreeBSD as a server though because it > would not recognize the Ethernet card. The Ethernet card is a Kingston > NE2000 compatible PNP ISA card. As far as I was able to figure out it > was the PNP aspect of it that gave me problems. I have been looking at > ISA Ethernet cards and they all seem to be PNP. Will FreeBSD now > recognize PNP cards or do I need to find a non PNP NIC for it to work? It would probably be simpler to disable PnP in the machine's BIOS, if it lets you do that. I'm sending this mail courtesy of an NE2000 ISA card. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message