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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: bdodson@scms.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Availability of *non* PnP ethernet card Date: 1 Jul 1997 21:38:42 GMT Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5pbtd3$qbn@atlantis.utmb.edu> References: <86pvt3m6ml.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> Reply-To: bdodson@scms.utmb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: beowulf.utmb.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43856 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. -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790