Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:49:07 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>, "questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pocket Ethernet Adaptor (Parallel) Message-ID: <002601c0a1e2$69b00cc0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <01022815054504.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au> <02b201c0a144$bf947700$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <0103011001450C.12912@PhD_1.testname.com.au>
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> > The way I check to see if the NIC is properly recognized & configured during > > installation is to "pretend" I'm doing an FTP install (whether I am or > > otherwise). If the NIC is OK it will be in the list of interfaces .... if > > its not there its obviously not a happy little NIC. > > I'll have a crack at that. I believe its possible to enable more NICs by messing with the kernel after install, but thats obviously irrelevant if you can't install in the first place. I wouldn't think the FreeBSD developers would have the time or the interest in supporting weird / geriatric devices ... the parallel port ethernet adaptors may well fall into that category. Another thought .... you describe the laptop as "ancient" which implies that it may be one of those low end 386 / 486 disasters mit 4Mb RAM .... if its got less than 16Mb RAM the install won't work anyway. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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