Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:29:34 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list' <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Alpha,
First off: my NoName board works! FreeBSD installed flawlessly. The
sysinstall background is red, but it is my understanding that that's a
feature. It won't have a monitor anyway, so don't rush out to fix this for
me. :-)
Good work, everyone!
It seems that the onboard NCR 810 is not recognized by the sym driver. I had
to use the ncr driver for it. Wilko, perhaps this might be useful to mention
in HARDWARE.TXT.
I tried building a kernel without any of the sio things, but it failed to
link, saying it was missing "comconsole" and "sionattach" IIRC. I never knew
that serial ports were an integral and mandatory part of FreeBSD. :) Is this
a bug^H^H^Hfeature? If so, HARDWARE.TXT might want to mention this too. I'll
file a PR if you think it should have linked fine without sio.
I noticed that ed0 is not in the generic kernel. Will my old isa NE1000 work
in that box, or should I (finally) buy some other NIC?
Kees Jan
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