Date: Fri, 12 Jun 98 02:24:23 -0400 From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org> To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ _ISA_ supprt? Message-ID: <199806120624.CAA14156@luomat.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980612130532.333I-100000@broker> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980612130532.333I-100000@broker>
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Author: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Original-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:08:46 +0800 (MYT) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980612130532.333I-100000@broker> > the floppy images downloaded from andrzej's web site or mine both have > out of the box support for the ed and ep drivers. if you were to download > the build scripts, you'd note that the ie driver has been commented out > in the kernel config file. just rebuild it with the driver uncommented. Ah... yes, well, that would require that I had a full installation from which to rebuild from.... which I don't, but am beginning to suspect I will not be able to live without. > > > 'ed' is for the (cheaper, faster) NE2000 and similar. > > > > I heard those were unreliable.... > > i've been using the ed driver on clone NE2000s for quite a while and > there've been no problems to date. these machines are usually heavily > loaded webservers and mailservers. As I mentioned in a followup, I was referring to the NE2000s rather than the driver, but apparently this too was not the case. TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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