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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!theos.com!riscan.riscan.com!van.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Compaq PROSIGNA 300? Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:52:25 GMT Organization: VSi Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4q9pct$gqc@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <tsohmon72t.fsf@pousm.po.usbw> <31C0B611.24663B4E@lambert.org> <4pu3r5$oa1@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <31C6057C.4D42A4B9@lambert.org> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.164.199.173 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 <Snip snip snip> >Sorry, the only "original post" I can find is that of: >He is talking about the *ON BOARD* ethernet. Yeah so are we. >I find it impossible to believe that the BIOS on a motherboard >would be so designed as to prevent use of chips on the >motherboard. Go use a Compaq. >Since the on board ethernet on the Compaq PROSIGNIA 300 works >with the FreeBSD "if_lnc" driver, if it is told where the I/O >and IRQ live, I find it impossible to believe that anything >other than the chip can affect the operation of the chip. >I also find it difficult to believe that the BIOS would be >capable of running, let alone actively interfering, with the >chip when the machine has been placed in protected mode. As I said above, go use a Compaq. >I didn't mention FreeBSD before because it was a BSDI question >about hardware I was familiar with. I mention it now only as >one of three formal evidences that you are misleading Chris. Im not misleading anyone, I use 2 Compaq prosignias at work and neither of them will let me use the PCNet LANCE adapter.. >Perhaps you are confusing this with another thread? Im not that braindead. Lance