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From: Dean Roth <dean@myp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI can't recognize NE2000 Ethernet card
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:09:02 -0700
Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI
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To: Wee-San Lee <wlee@alcor.usc.edu>

Wee-San Lee wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Geert Jan de Groot wrote:
> 
> > NE2000 cards can be made to work fairly easy. You did not explain what
> > your problem is, so people can't help.
> 
>         Well, my problem was that when I boot from BSDI installation
> disk, my REAL NE2000 Ethernet card can't be recognized.  Instead, pe0 and

Modern cards are configured through software which comes with the card.
I'm using an NE2000 clone and it works fine. I had to configure it to use
the configuration expected by BSDI using the DOS program supplied with
the card.

Dean