From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 14 13:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C083437B7E1 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.its.uu.se ([130.238.7.19]:64510 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:13:41 +0100 Received: (qmail 2563 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Mar 2000 21:13:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:13:33 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Keith Bartholomew Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD compatible hardware Message-ID: <20000314221332.A2487@student.csd.uu.se> References: <38CD8FE0.BE42D251@dana.ucc.nau.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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