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From: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Availability of *non* PnP ethernet card
Date: 02 Jul 1997 23:32:58 +1000
Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Department, RMIT Australia
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Marko Schuetz <marko@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
> > Most of the cheap NE2000 clones come with a configuration disk. One
> > of the options is to turn off plug and pray and configure the card
> > manually.
>
> Use of the configuration disk will require I boot DOS. I do not have a
> DOS license and I consider booting DOS only to be able to us a product
> only as a last resort.
Maybe you can have a small DOS partition containing freedos to run the
configuration programs for network cards etc., and then execute the
FBSDBOOT.EXE program to continue with the real boot. I have seen people
using MSDOS and DRDOS to configure cards, but I haven't seen this done with
freedos. Wouldn't mind hearing how it goes if you use it.
See http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/freedos.html for
details on getting the latest freedos.
phillip
p.s. Never thought I'd ever describe doing anything in a dos, but this one
is a team effort and legally free...
UNIX _IS_ user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
--unknown