From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 21:23:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA02642 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02634 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA02464; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 21:22:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: John Kelly cc: Jason Korkin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuring a LinkSys Ethernet Card In-Reply-To: <344b5a13.104061014@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:22:53 -0400, Jason Korkin > wrote: > > >I am trying to install a Linksys 10-Base-T ethernet card. It is NE2000 > >compatible, and it resides at IRQ 11, at 0x280-0x29f. I cannot get the > >kernel config to recongize it, nor if I rebuild the kernel... Any > >thoughts? > > I ran one of those Linksys cards as NE2000 with IRQ 11 and 0x200. It > worked fine. Perhaps you have a bad card, a hardware conflict, or > some other incompatibiliy. > > I'm not using the Linksys card anymore because I found SMC Ultra 16's > at auction for an incredible price, and I have more than 100 SMC cards > now. Enough to plant my web farm! > > John I have a couple Linksys cards. They are nothing more(i believe) than NE2000 cards. I the NE2000 drive in FreeBSD, NT and 95 work. Just use the setup program on the floppy that comes with it to set the IRQ and address, set FreeBSD to use the same, and your set.