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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!newsfeed.cit.cornell.edu!cornellcs!rochester!udel!stimpy.eecis.udel.edu!alexandr From: alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help With Installation Date: 10 Nov 1995 22:30:54 GMT Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store Lines: 38 Message-ID: <480jqu$5rr@louie.udel.edu> References: <47totr$f9f@louie.udel.edu> <47vm0h$1lh@kaleka.seanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy1.eecis.udel.edu In article <47vm0h$1lh@kaleka.seanet.com>, Bruce Olsen <bolsen@seanet.com> wrote: :In article <47totr$f9f@louie.udel.edu>, alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) writes: :|> :|> How much swap space do I need. I've used Linux before and know that :|> they recommend 16M. Is there a specific value that I should use for :|> FreeBSD, or is any size okay? : :How much memory do you have. If you have a lot and won't be in a position :to swap, you don't need any. If you have 16MB or less, I'd recommend a mimimum :of 16MB, but up to 32MB. Above 16MB, I'd reommend at least as much swap space :as you have memory. Thanks for the recommendation. :|> My ethernet card is a NE2100-compatible. However it's on a :|> non-standard port. I'm not sure if the probe on the bootdisk is :|> finding it. When I give the -c option to manually configure something, :|> I was wondering, which device is the ethernet card? I dug through the FAQS and found that NE2100 cards should use the lnc0 or lnc1 decive (for Lance/PCNet) cards. That's all cool. I thought that I'd gotten everything to work. Alas, that's not the case. I get the following error: lnc0: Heartbeat error - SQE test failed. What's it mean, and more importantly, what can I do to fix it? Thanks in advance... --Jerry -- 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) darkstar@strauss.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8