Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 07:41:04 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Alpha mailing list'" <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sio, nrc and sym questions for NoName Message-ID: <20000510074104.A91023@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:29:34PM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D74C9@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:29:34PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > It seems that the onboard NCR 810 is not recognized by the sym driver. What is the date of your kernel? The `sym' maintainer just added suport for the NCR 810 chip. > I had to use the ncr driver for it. Wilko, perhaps this might be useful > to mention in HARDWARE.TXT. I use the `ncr' driver on my AS 250 and have no problems with it. So it isn't like using `ncr' is a terriable thing. IMHO the comments beside `ncr' and `sym' in the GENERIC kernel configuration file tell this. > 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? Unsure. I don't believe anyone has really tested it. A $10 PCI NIC will do very well in the NoName. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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