From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 11 20:02:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18921 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (gamefish.pcola.gulf.net [198.69.72.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18916 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Received: from localhost (psalzman@localhost) by gamefish.pcola.gulf.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA01665; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:02:10 GMT (envelope-from psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:02:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Phillip Salzman To: Jeff Hamilton cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199811120311.WAA09692@gandolf.ml.org> 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 > I am currently running FreeBSD on a 486 DX2-50, and would like to > upgrade the system to something much faster. I have been looking at the > Cyrix MII-300, and it seems like a better buy for the money than a > Pentium or Pentium II. Yes, its a cool machine. > > Does anyone know of any problems or incompatibilities with this > processor and FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE or FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE? > Umm, no. Its the x86 system. Shouldn't have any problems, unless maybe you try SMP. I doubt you will encounter anything that sucks. > Also, I have noticed that the NE2000 ethernet cards are only listed in > the ISA section of LINT. Are PCI NE2000 ethernet cards supported under > FreeBSD? Yes, they are. For a while I ran the PCI Realtek NE2000 clones. They did good, all I had to do was add "device ed" or something like that to my kernel - no problems. It detected automaticly, everything was fine. -- Phillip Salzman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message