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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!newsfeed.dacom.co.kr!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!usenet From: jason@neis.net (Jason A Chase) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro10+ ISA LAN Adapter Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:13:57 GMT Organization: Altopia Corp. - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net Lines: 40 Message-ID: <324991ca.93036982@news.alt.net> References: <01bbaa46$057e0c40$1c66de89@Flashflood.cs.bris.ac.uk> <529jdh$81@xciv.demon.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 On 24 Sep 1996 21:21:53 GMT, paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) wrote: >In article <01bbaa46$057e0c40$1c66de89@flashflood.cs.bris.ac.uk>, > "SAFIRE Group" <steve@earthquake.cs.bris.ac.uk> writes: > >> The only other problem is that the utility I am supposed to use to >> configure this card is Intel's SoftSet thing, now softset2.exe doesn't do a >> wonderful job and it's not exactly the most user friendly program ever. > >I've no idea if this card works under FreeBSD (I just about got it working >under NeXTSTEP with the latest driver ;) but I'd advise using softset to >a) turn off PnP and b) set the IRQ, etc settings of the card. > >Either make the settings match that which the kernel is looking for, or >configure the kernel at boot (-c) and make the kernel look for the card >at some place different to the default. > >> (besides I don't have DOS on this computer anymore) > >Just boot off a DOS floppy. > >-Paul- > >-- >Paul Civati =O= Home: paul@xciv.org =O= http://www.xciv.org/ >London UK =O= Home: paul@xciv.demon.co.uk =O= Slackware is. I have/had an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+ and found out that the normal Intel EtherExpress driver were not compatible nor are the new Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 drivers. I ended up buying a compatible dec card. Jason ___________________________________ Jason Chase jason@neis.net HTML Authoring webmaster@nxi.com Internet Software Developer New England Internet Services, Inc http://www.neis.net/