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Date:      Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:20:48 -0400
From:      "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah@nc.rr.com>
Subject:   Re: freebsd and ne2000 ISA NICs
Message-ID:  <20010824022249.45EB637B401@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 20:16:07 -0400, Nabeel S. Kandah wrote:

>I am trying to revive a bunch of old IBM Eduquest machines, those
>self-contained monitor/CPU beasts sold by the millions to schools across
>america. I am almost positive they have in them ne2000 compatible cards,
>all ISA for sure. Here is what I am doing:
>the eduquest: 20 MB RAM - 514 MB hard drive

>disc one of FreeBSD 4.3, boot machine with it.
>then the mfsroot disk.
>I configure the kernel visually, no conflicts, I use the ed0 module,
>default values 0x280 irq 10
>I set up a FreeBSD 4.3 machine as an NFS server with /etc/exports
>looking like /cdrom -ro 192.168.1.3
>I mount /cdrom and start mountd and nfsd. rpcinfo -p tells me all is
>working on the nfs server.

those might be old IBM token ring 16/4 cards.  I'd pop the cover and
look.  either that or you'll have to change the icq/addr settings- try
0x300 irq 10, 0x280 irq 11, or 0x300 irq 3.   those are the most common
settings i've seen.

---
doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net



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