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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HP J2585A network card supported ? Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:29:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <550gnb$eus@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbc416$dfea9d00$c1101ec3@timo-working> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Timo Geusch" <Timo_Geusch@award.de> wrote: > Does anyone know if the network adapter mentioned in the subject is > supported by freeBSD 2.1.5? > As at least one guy on the office is running this card with DC21040 drivers > in DOS, I suppose it uses a similar chip. The DEC 21040 is supported by the `de' driver. So if that's on your card, it's supposed to work. Make the simple test: boot a boot floppy, and see whether the `de' driver will announce it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)