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From: hdslip@iii1.iii.net (HD Associates)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Loading FreeBSD 2.0
Date: 1 Jun 1995 11:22:28 -0400
Organization: HD Associates, Inc.
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In article <3qje2k$s03@fnord.dfw.net>,  <donsethf@dump.com> wrote:
>I am getting ready to set up my ISP and have DOS on my machine..is there 
>any reason to have DOS on there?

Maybe to run utilities that need DOS.  I don't have DOS on my system.

>I am using an Adaptec 2940 as well as a 3COM III ethernet card, and a 16 
>port digiboard..anybody out there have any tips (or horror stories) for 
>using these devices? Is there a FreeBSD manual out there anywhere?..or 
>does it come on the installation CD?

Make sure the 3c509 isn't in plug 'n pray mode.

There is no support for Digiboard yet.  Digiboard information is only available
via with a signed non disclosure agreement, and so the drivers can't be
developed and distributed in the usual unrestricted FreeBSD way.  Digiboard
has made a Linux driver available, and I'm pretty sure that a version is
being developed by someone in Russia.
-- 
Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267