Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 13:05:09 -0800 From: "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixing 8- and 16-bit shared memory ISA cards Message-ID: <19981031130509.A12362@oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <199810311937.MAA27436@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 12:37:01PM -0700 References: <199810311853.KAA22693@austin.polstra.com> <199810311937.MAA27436@mt.sri.com>
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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
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