From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 31 13:06:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17269 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17264 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:06:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@the.oneinsane.net) Received: (from insane@localhost) by the.oneinsane.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA12451; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:05:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981031130509.A12362@oneinsane.net> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:05:09 -0800 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" To: Nate Williams , John Polstra Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixing 8- and 16-bit shared memory ISA cards Reply-To: insane@oneinsane.net References: <199810311853.KAA22693@austin.polstra.com> <199810311937.MAA27436@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810311937.MAA27436@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 12:37:01PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD the.oneinsane.net 2.2.7-STABLE X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I just put together the exact same thing.. It is working sweet. No wierd problems and stable and quick. The only thing I am lacking is a good firewall set.. Oh well till then I will use the rules I have. TTYL Ron On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 12:37:01PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > I have a question for you old farts who still remember ISA. I'm > > trying to turn an old 486 box into an ethernet <-> frame relay router. > > It has a 16-bit SMC 8013 card with shared memory, and also an 8-bit > > ET Inc. card with shared memory. I have this vague recollection that > > you can run into problems with a mix like that in an ISA machine. > > FWIW, I ran this same setup (literrally!) on my 486 box until recently, > using the same model ethernet card and the *same* ET card with no > problems. > > (I'll leave the rest of the questions unanswered since I don't know > about them...) > > > > nate > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain. [----------------------------System Info---------------------------] 1:03PM up 1 day, 12:40, 2 users, load averages: 0.55, 0.68, 0.67 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message