[geeks] # of machines running currently

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Jan 15 20:51:47 CST 2002


On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Ross Alexander wrote:

> The NE2k clones are notorious on OpenBSD lists for giving trouble. I was
> lucky at first that I had some 3c509s to play with. Once I turned off
> PNP (something I was doing long before I'd even heard of *BSD) and
> sorted out some IRQ problems, I had no problem.

I have no idea how to make 509s work without plug and play.  The 486 in 
question isn't even a plug and play system (from a BIOS perspective), but 
ISAPNP does work (assuming that I don't need to fiddle with it).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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