From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 9 11:32:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5D114D9E for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 11:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id UAA24833 for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:26:13 +0200 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id UAA96016 for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:14:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:14:36 +0200 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: outdated installation/compatibility information in the handbook Message-ID: <19991009201435.B85059@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I hope this is the right place to send this to... (I'm not subscribed to this list so please Cc answers to me.) Two things: The compatibility information in the handbook (and everywhere else apparently) only lists the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B nic to go with the fxp driver (which from reading the lists i know is the one that appears to work best). Now it seems the Pro/100B is no longer available at least around here, so i went searching the list archives... And now the box has a EtherExpress Pro/100+ Management Adapter (soon to become two actually), which has a 82559 chipset which is software compatible with the 82557/8 that was on the Pro/100B (an addition seems to be wake-on-lan). And btw on the 3.2R 4-CD box it even lists a EtherExpress Pro/100 (no B!), from the archived mail i have read i now know that used an entire different chipset for which there in fact is no driver... And the other thing: I just noticed the install-from-CD docs in the handbook still talk about the install.bat, i'm pretty sure that won't work for 3.x as it used the fbsdboot.exe dos program that only knows how to boot aout kernels? (i don't have that CD here now so i can't check if it even still _is_ on there.) Well, so there you have my $.02 for today... :) Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message