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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Desperately seeking: NE2100 network adapter support Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:02:39 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 42 Message-ID: <2gi1pv$f1c@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2ghrhn$3tp@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2ghrhn$3tp@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>, Patrick M.Hausen <pmh@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> wrote: >We (PC reseller, mainly DOS & Novell) are planning to offer one of the new >Siemens Nixdorf machines bundled with some free Unix and XFree as a replacement >for X-Terminals or low-end-workstations. Cool, I've been running FreeBSD on DEC pc's for the same thing for use at Montana State University and folks have been very happy with them. >I've tried Linux wich runs fine but is somewhat crufty and difficult to strip >down to the configuration we need. I'd like to start with a plain "OS-only" >configuration and then add Xfree and there we are ... >And ... we need _stable_ networking ;-) No problems here. However, how much disk space do you want to use? (I've got a complete X system in 80MB w/out deleting ANYTHING with shared libraries, but I didn't delete anything so I imagine I could bring it down quite a bit further with a little work.) >BTW: I've read about NetBSD and FreeBSD having problems with I/O and more than >16 MB of memory - is this related to busmaster DMA only or can't I >use more than 16 M in an ISA machine? Are EISA machines and -adapters supported >anyway (Adaptec 1740)? The ISA bus has 24 data lines which == 16MB. To do memory access aboove that you need to implement bounce buffers which neither NetBSD or FreeBSD has done. FreeBSD supports quite a few different EISA adaptors, check out the RELEASE NOTES on FreeBSD.cdrom.com:pub/FreeBSD for a list of them. (I don't have them memorized) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me