From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 10 7:41:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5DA37B601 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 07:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c01-035.006.popsite.net [216.126.134.35]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA32823; Wed, 10 May 2000 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA91061; Wed, 10 May 2000 07:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 07:41:04 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list'" Subject: Re: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName Message-ID: <20000510074104.A91023@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:29:34PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:29:34PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > It seems that the onboard NCR 810 is not recognized by the sym driver. What is the date of your kernel? The `sym' maintainer just added suport for the NCR 810 chip. > I had to use the ncr driver for it. Wilko, perhaps this might be useful > to mention in HARDWARE.TXT. I use the `ncr' driver on my AS 250 and have no problems with it. So it isn't like using `ncr' is a terriable thing. IMHO the comments beside `ncr' and `sym' in the GENERIC kernel configuration file tell this. > I noticed that ed0 is not in the generic kernel. Will my old isa NE1000 work > in that box, or should I (finally) buy some other NIC? Unsure. I don't believe anyone has really tested it. A $10 PCI NIC will do very well in the NoName. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message