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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!Duesseldorf.Germany.EU.net!Bonn.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Compaq PROSIGNA 300? Date: 18 Jun 1996 10:58:47 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4q6257$39g@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <tsohmon72t.fsf@pousm.po.usbw> <31C0B611.24663B4E@lambert.org> <4pu3r5$oa1@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) wrote: > >If BSDI supports LANCE, it supports this chip. > > Terry, its not a matter of if BSDI supports the chipset or not, its a > matter if the Compaq BIOS will ALLOW BSDI to ACCESS the card, and it > will not. Since when does BSD/OS run with BIOS support? > Read my original post. I did. Didn't get me further. I've actually used a PCnet-based machine last week with FreeBSD. FreeBSD doesn't have a PCI driver for these chips either, but once I knew its port address (which can vary depending whether other PCI cards are around), the existing Lance driver worked indeed fine. This was with an HP Vectra, but i don't see a big difference in the brand of the machine. I simply didn't even ask the BIOS whether it would allow my BSD to access the ethernet card. <:) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j