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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!wildcan!alexd From: alexd@system9.unisys.com (Alex Dumitru) Subject: Re: NE2000 adapter at a different i/o address?? Message-ID: <1994Jul13.152858.16815@system9.unisys.com> Organization: Unisys GIS (Toronto) References: <2vlecg$bv@eps.com> <2vm8d4$127@panix3.panix.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 15:28:58 GMT Lines: 22 In article <2vm8d4$127@panix3.panix.com> wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul) writes: [... good advice about ed* setup deleted ...] >Also note that the general concensus seems to be that NE2000 boards >aren't all that great. Huh?!? I've worked with NE2000's for the last year or so, and haven't seen any problems (FreeBSD, SCO, UnixWare, DOS/Windows, OS/2, Novell). Mind you they are not blazingly fast, but I found them very reliable. Most of the software out there today supports the NE's. Again, performance might be lacking a bit, but as for hardware reliability they are as good as a tank! just my $0.02 Oh, almost forgot. Under FreeBSD 1.1R I've got mine set up for 0x300 irq9. You have to rebuild the kernel since with those settings the card gets detected as 0x300 irq5! Otherwise it works... cheers alex