From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 9 15:42:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE4337B6E3; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20022; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA02308; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 15:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000409141508.B1252@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 15:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Dual boot FreeBSD + OSF1? Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien wrote: > > Almost any ``de'' card. I'm using the SMC EtherPower (I believe it was > "EtherPower) 10/100. It does indead have a DEC chip on it. Mine is an SMC card too. I have a few others of various vintages I could try. But meanwhile I just went ahead and ordered a DE500-BA card. I'm to the point where I'd rather do that than tear up all my other machines looking for the magic NIC. >> tu0: no SROM info for selected media > > Does ``show dev'' in SRM show your current NIC? Yep. >> *Sigh.* If you're ever feeling negative about FreeBSD, just go try >> installing any commercial Unix. It a great way to recalibrate your >> expectations. > > Installing Solaris on Sparc hardware is a breeze. :) I'm sure installing Tru64 on Compaq hardware is a breeze too. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message