Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:13:33 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> To: Keith Bartholomew <kb9@dana.ucc.nau.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatible hardware Message-ID: <20000314221332.A2487@student.csd.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <38CD8FE0.BE42D251@dana.ucc.nau.edu>; from kb9@dana.ucc.nau.edu on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 06:03:28PM -0700 References: <38CD8FE0.BE42D251@dana.ucc.nau.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 06:03:28PM -0700, 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? I have a NE2000 compatible PNP ISA card that works just fine with FreeBSD 3.4-stable so it should work fine. (You might have to mess around with PNP setting in userconfig to avoid collisions.) Many PNP cards can be put into a non-PNP mode also. If you have trouble with PNP you might check if this is true for your card. > If so could anyone suggest where I could find an ISA Ethernet card that > will work in FreeBSD that isn't too expensive? I would greatly > appreciate any help. Thank you. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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