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Date:      Thu, 15 May 1997 09:14:24 -0700
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
To:        Stefan `Sec` Zehl <sec@42.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_de.c ????
Message-ID:  <337B3660.25E7@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
References:  <199705130304.MAA13243@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <E0wR8gT-0004sS-00@rover.village.org> <slrn5nln93.lvi.sec@matrix.42.org>

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Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In article <E0wR8gT-0004sS-00@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh wrote:
> > All this talk reminds me of all of those silly NE2000 compatible cards
> > that I have laying around useless since FreeBSD can't find them on
> > boot.  Any idea how to make FreeBSD probe really hard for them?
> 
> Don't kill me right now :) - but i have a lot of them around here, too.
> I usually go and get a recent Linux-Bootdisk, let it probe for the card, write
> the parameters down, and use them in my FreeBSD installation :)
> 
> CU,
>         Sec
I do the contrary: I boot a DOS floppy and configure them to the what
FreeBSD is really expecting. Most times it works, but sometimes no.

	Pedro.


> --
> Fuer die Raupe ist es das Ende der Welt,
> Fuer den Rest der Welt ist es ein Schmetterling
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