From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 15 09:35:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27673 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 May 1997 09:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA27643 for ; Thu, 15 May 1997 09:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem15.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.45]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA00232; Thu, 15 May 1997 11:36:50 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <337B3660.25E7@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:14:24 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan `Sec` Zehl CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? References: <199705130304.MAA13243@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote: > > Hi, > > In article , Warner Losh wrote: > > All this talk reminds me of all of those silly NE2000 compatible cards > > that I have laying around useless since FreeBSD can't find them on > > boot. Any idea how to make FreeBSD probe really hard for them? > > Don't kill me right now :) - but i have a lot of them around here, too. > I usually go and get a recent Linux-Bootdisk, let it probe for the card, write > the parameters down, and use them in my FreeBSD installation :) > > CU, > Sec I do the contrary: I boot a DOS floppy and configure them to the what FreeBSD is really expecting. Most times it works, but sometimes no. Pedro. > -- > Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt, > Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling > Error 0: No error