Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 17:08:24 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dexteryeung@ns1.HK.LinkAGE.NET (Dexter Yeung) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet setup Message-ID: <199507250738.RAA02118@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9507250637.AA05793@wyvern.HK.LinkAGE.Net> from "Dexter Yeung" at Jul 25, 95 02:44:41 pm
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Dexter Yeung stands accused of saying: > > I have installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 in my Pentimun server with 2x2G > IBM SCSI HDD, 64M RAM and 3C509 NIC. While it start to boot, > BSD 2.0.g cannot recognise the 3C509 as address is 0x300 and > irq is 10. This is covered in the release notes. You complain about documentation, surely you read what was available? You'll want to turn off plug-n-play mode using the DOS configuration tool for the card, and make sure that no other devices are enabled that will probe at 0x300. > Where I can find detail reference material, e.g. books for me > to reference. I find that it is seriously short of books and > other reference material ( Linux has many books in book stores ) Any book on BSD unix generally applies. In particular, the 4.4BSD manual set from O'Reilly contains large amounts of useful information. Many Linux books contain very little 8) > It is too hard for a beginner to play with this > kind of OS, as well as UNIX techno. That's not an opinion I have any evidence to substantiate. > Dexter -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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