From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 10 14:56:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02216 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02175 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ken (tsunami.awod.com [198.81.225.31]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA07796; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:55:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960611015559.00748c94@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:55:59 -0400 To: admin@mail.multinet.net (graydon hoare) From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: Ethernets are supposed to work, right? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:50 AM 6/10/96 -0400, you wrote: >install/probe boot disk, and it still failes to initialize the device. These >are standard ethernet cards -- intel etherpros, SMCs etc. I must be doing I have used ISA NE2000 clones and 3C509s with great success. Make sure that you have configured the kernel for the correct params in the visual config. I haven't used the etherpro or smc (isa) so no comment there. >The machine is a genuineintel IBM PS/Valuepoint 486/dx2-50 (I can hear you >groaning) with 32mb and an adaptec SCSI controller with 2 units, 1GB seagate >drive and a sony CDROM (the local store is all out of the walnut creek CDs, >hence the network install). It's all quite "normal" hardware, shouldn't be >having any trouble at all. I still have old reliable a valuepoint 486sx/25 w/8mb which ran BSD 2.0 for more than 3 months (as a news-server no less) without a crash! :) That is better than some of my newer equipment. I also used that as a T-1 router for 4 months with no crash! :) Solid machines, not the bleeding edge in speed, but IBM conservatism in servers is a GOOD thing. -ken -ken