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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: ethernet cards in freebsd
Message-ID: <1995Sep22.083720.3043@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: The Internet
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 08:37:20 GMT
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nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) writes:

>Hi, I am moving from Linux to FreeBSD, and I will tell you one thing. 
>Linux was much better and figuring out my hardware. I have two WD/SMC 
>8013 ethernet cards in the box and FreeBSD thinks they are at memory 
>address they are not set to. In Linux I could tell the kernel where my 
>ethernet cards were. Can I do this in FreeBSD? Has anyone had problems 
>with the WD/SMC 8013 ethernet cards?

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