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From: pmh@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Desperately seeking: NE2100 network adapter support
Date: 6 Jan 1994 21:15:51 +0100
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We (PC reseller, mainly DOS & Novell) are planning to offer one of the new
Siemens Nixdorf machines bundled with some free Unix and XFree as a replacement
for X-Terminals or low-end-workstations.
I've tried Linux wich runs fine but is somewhat crufty and difficult to strip
down to the configuration we need. I'd like to start with a plain "OS-only"
configuration and then add Xfree and there we are ...
And ... we need _stable_ networking ;-)
So I'd like to try NetBSD. The bad thing about the ditribution (0.9) I have is:
the NE2100 ethernet board is not supported - and this adapter comes _on_board_
of exactly the machines we are planning to use.
Is there some driver available? I'd really appreciate having a stable plain BSD
OS I can use.
BTW: I've read about NetBSD and FreeBSD having problems with I/O and more than
16 MB of memory - is this related to busmaster DMA only or can't I
use more than 16 M in an ISA machine? Are EISA machines and -adapters supported
anyway (Adaptec 1740)?
Please send me an email if you like to answer.
Thanks in advance,
Paddy
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