From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 12:41:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADD037B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:41:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluestem (bluestem.prairienet.org [192.17.3.4]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21651; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:41:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:41:17 -0600 (CST) From: "David M. Talkington" X-Sender: dtalk@bluestem To: gdunn@mac.com Cc: Alex Charalabidis , Cassiel , stanb@panix.com, Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Are 3C509B's no longer in the install kernel! In-Reply-To: <00111310362902.01495@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> 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 > Ah Ha! So that's why my Compaq server found it's Thunder-thingy NIC even though > it was not a configurable option. I really stumbled over that (4.1.1). To even > get going I had to disable all NICs (they all had conflict errors) so I assumed > networking would be stillborn. Imagine my surprise when later the installer > knew about my NIC. > > I would have to say that this is confusing. Agreed ... I have learned to trust the install routine and not ask such questions. =) -d > > -- > == Gary Dunn > == Honolulu > == Open Slate Project > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message