From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 8:53:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A6B15C7D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA05240; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:52:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:52:34 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Patrick Burm Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation floppies In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990331093104.00996b70@commlitho.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Patrick Burm wrote: > I downloaded the installation floppies for > 3.1 hoping to do an install via ftp. > > Unfortunately, the generic kernel does not > seem to include the ix0 driver as described > by the supported hardware section of the > handbook. I have an intel ether express > NIC that I'm trying to use. Why does the documentation still say this? The ix driver hasn't been around since before 2.2.2 (the first release I used). Use the ie driver, but beware, it does not always work well (unless serious changes were made to it since 2.2.6, the last time I successfully used my old EtherExpress 16). Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message