Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:57:18 -0500 (CDT) From: mailtrail <substme@rc.tex-an.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <20050919121743.T10188@rc.tex-an.net>
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I needed a quick firewall to guard an ISDN line, so I grabbed a K6/166. This box only came out of service a couple months ago, having run for several years on 4.3-stable (set up some time in 2001). The NIC card that is in it is an ISA bus card, a WD8003 (it was operating as ed0 in its previous incarnation). More for amusement than anything else, I decided to use that card, if I could, with a recent version of FreeBSD, so I loaded 5.4-R onto it. I now realize that I no longer have any idea how to tell the kernel how to find a non-PnP ISA card. Here is the kernel.conf file from the old box: en ed0 po ed0 0x300 ir ed0 10 iom ed0 0xd8000 f ed0 0 q I don't even remember what lines 1 and 5 mean. How do I set IRQ, memory address, etc for a non-PnP ISA card under 5.4-R, if that is even possible? If not possible, is it supported under 4.11? This isn't critical by any means. The motherboard has two open PCI slots on it, so I could just use PCI NIC cards for the firewall, but I am curious if the old cards can still be used. I also have a second ISA NIC card, a WD8013, so it would be somewhat amusing to have this box running a firewall using those two old NIC cards. The ISA bus should be able to easily keep up with 128Kb of traffic; the old version of the box was a mail- and web-server, and never had problems keeping up with ISDN speeds.
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