From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 19:40:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD43937B4CF for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eA73cpo29951; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:38:51 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Tancsa To: admin@darksabre.com ("Kieran Davis") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about hardware... Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:38:51 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 Nov 2000 20:56:59 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you = wrote: The easiest way is to go to=20 ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386 go into a recent snapshot directory, and then the floppies directory grab the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp, boot your machine first with kern, = then mfsroot.flp when prompted. You will see fairly quickly if your card is identified correctly or not. ---Mike >Greetings, >I am interested in getting a copy of FreeBSD, but I fear that I might = get the same problem I have had before when using Linux: My PCI Card may = not be recognized. Is my Promise Technologies Inc. Ultra66 IDE = Controller(by Digital Research) recognized by FreeBSD 4.1.1 i386? My = previous attempt at installing Linux-Mandrake 7 showed that my PCI card = was recognized as a SCSI device, which was not recognized by the copy of = Linux, since it did not have the drivers for it. >Thank you for your time in reading this, I hope you can help me with my = problem. > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message