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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 1996 09:14:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.91.960710090803.13658C-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <199607101250.IAA29257@mh004.infi.net>

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On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Steve Sims wrote:
> > From: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> [snip]
> > I would also like to remove:
> > 
> > ed1
> > lp1
> > 
> Sorry, Jordan, I don't agree with yanking the ed1 device at all.  The
> defaults for the ed0 interface are, at least in my copy of GENERIC, are
> 5/280.  Nearly ALL of the NE-2000 clones (and there are gazillions of 'em)
> can't use 0x280, so the ed1 device becomes the E-net port on a clean
> install; 5/300 being a fairly standard HW setup.

Same here, every system I install uses ed1.  I know how to change it
and it's no big deal, but to someone new to FreeBSD it might be.

If you want to have only one ed interface, please consider changing the 
settings of ed0 to those currently used by ed1.

Thanks,
Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                    714 443 4172
 DPC Systems                                                  dan@dpcsys.com
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