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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!agis!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP/IP with an SMC Ultra 16 ethernet. Usable? Date: 11 Jun 1995 11:10:28 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Ops, Chicago, IL Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3rf4hk$1br@Jupiter.mcs.net> References: <IEC.95Jun11005547@netcom20.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.mcs.net In article <IEC.95Jun11005547@netcom20.netcom.com>, Interstate Electronics Corp <mre@lpf.org> wrote: >After a comparatively recent pep-talk from Kirk McCusick, I decided to >take a fully-functional Linux system (i486, 8Mb) which was part of a >network of Sparcs and Indigos and replace the OS with NetBSD. .... >The killer, however, was that I had the same inability to use NFS or >FTP that I had discovered under NetBSD. I followed the directions on >how to manually intervene in the ethernet configuration process >(insuring that we use the right IRQ and ram address) but was unable to >convince the kernel that my ethernet was not on IRQ 9. > >This is the exact same card, in the exact same machine, in the exact >same network that worked without a problem with Linux. So, my >question to the cognoscenti is: > > Can I do something to make networking functional for Net/Free BSD, or > Should I just go back to Linux (but maybe a newer version)? Yes. Read the documentation and FAQs. FreeBSD 2.0 installed on the first try for me here, and the networking is both fully functional and an order of magnitude better than anything Linux could hope to offer. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity Modem: [+1 312 248-0900] | (shell, PPP, SLIP, leased) in Chicagoland Voice: [+1 312 248-8649] | 7 Chicagoland POPs, ISDN, 28.8, much more Fax: [+1 312 248-9865] | Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net ISDN - Get it here TODAY! | Home of Chicago's only FULL AP Clarinet feed!