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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Oliviero Armezzani wrote:

> After its installation, I had to suffer the incompatibility between your 
> Freebsd 2.1.5 and my Compaq Desk PRO 6200 (Intel Pentium Pro), 
> particularly it seems not to identify both the processor and the 
> ethernet board on mother board. This resulted in the impossibility of 
> installation, now my questions are:
> 
> 1) do you have any idea about a possible solution?

No clue.  Some Compaq's are known to have faulty PCI buses; this may be
one.  (Sorry, I can't remember which model has the problem.)

> either
> 2) what about the compatibility of new release 2.1.6 or even 2.2.Beta?

I do not know.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major