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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!160.45.4.4!fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de!not-for-mail From: Marko Schuetz <marko@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Availability of *non* PnP ethernet card Date: 02 Jul 1997 09:54:03 +0200 Organization: J.W.Goethe-Universit"at, Frankfurt, Informatik Lines: 22 Message-ID: <86radhdh44.fsf@king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <86pvt3m6ml.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> <5pbtd3$qbn@atlantis.utmb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: king.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.66) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43793 bdodson@scms.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) writes: > > In article <86pvt3m6ml.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>, > Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes: > > I am looking for a cheap ethernet card for my desktop > > PC. Unfortunately, it seems all that is offered these days are PnP > > ethernet cards. I assume I cannot use these with FreeBSD, set IRQ, > > memory base etc. Does anyone of a place selling inexpensive ethernet > > cards that have good old jumpers on them? > > > > Marko > > Most of the cheap NE2000 clones come with a configuration disk. One > of the options is to turn off plug and pray and configure the card > manually. Use of the configuration disk will require I boot DOS. I do not have a DOS license and I consider booting DOS only to be able to us a product only as a last resort. Marko