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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:54:58 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Ronnie Clark <RClark@swst.com>
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Subject: Re: ISA NIC card
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:55:01AM -0500, Ronnie Clark wrote:
> Hello all:
> 
>   I am trying to setup a old 486 box to be an internal web / name server for
> the house, and to start teaching UNIX to my 5 year old son. The thing is
> that it is an ISA system only. Anybody know if a good ISA NIC that works
> (read: detected by) FreeBSD 4.2 during setup? I tried an Intel ISA card over
> the weekend, but no luck, even after recompiling the kernel and adding in
> the lines Intel NICs. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Are you talking about an ex(4) device or the ie(4)? I've used both in
486's with no problem. Mostly with 3.x, but I think I used one or the
other with 4.0.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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