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From: cosc19v2@menudo.uh.edu (cosc19v2)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install and NE2000
Date: 4 Apr 1994 10:27:49 -0500
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Keywords: ne2000 ethernet on unix

In article <2nfvfe$54c@cobber.cord.edu>,
Chris Grant <grant@cobber.cord.edu> wrote:
>
>I am currently using a Misco NE2000 clone on my FreeBSD-1.1-BETA box and I
>communicate with a Solbourne at about 400k/sec no prob.

I do have a problem. My NE2000 clone doesn't have the address 280 and
The kernel even cannot recognize the card.


>  It's not the ne2000.  

Of course, it's not the ne2000.  It is the FreeBSD's problem.


>FreeBSD has excellent support for ethernet and networking in general.
>

NOT !!!

>--Chris
>
>FreeBSD, XFree2.1 - Free workstations for all!

NOT !!!  It is only for a VERY SMALL group of some people who happen to
have expensive and compatible (with BSD) hardware.

Linux IS  is for ALL !!!

>
>-- 
>Christopher K. Grant | Oh Spot, the complex levels of behaviour you display
>Concordia College    | connote a fairly well developed cognitive array.-Data
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