D-Link ISA Ethernet (BNC/RJ45) DE220P

Lee Smallbone lee at smallbone.com
Mon Mar 13 14:39:54 GMT 2000


Hello Kevin,

 Thanks very much for that, you've put my mind at rest. Thanks for the tip
regarding
connection type as well!

 Regards,

 Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin O'Connor" <kevin at rainford.org.uk>
To: "Lee Smallbone" <lee at smallbone.com>; <freebsd-users at freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: D-Link ISA Ethernet (BNC/RJ45) DE220P


> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Lee Smallbone wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello everyone!
> > >
> > >  I hope you'll forgive me for the hyperthetical setting to this email,
but I, well, worry a lot.
> > > I have on order from cdrom.com the latest burnt release of FreeBSD.
I'm a fairly seasoned
> > > linux user (2+ years), but this will be my first FreeBSD install.
> > >
> > > I also have on order from either Jungle.com or Novatech, I can't
remember which right now,
> > > a D-LINK ISA DE-220P network card. I did a search on the FreeBSD
mailing list archive
> > > and didn't find too much - something which I take to be good if no-one
has discussed it.
> > >
> > > My question is, will this card and BSD work together 'out-of-the-box',
or close to? Is the card
> > > supported natively in the generic kernel? In my previous installations
of RedHat and SuSE I'm
> > > used to having a fairly mainstream card (say, an Intel EtherExpress
16) which automagically
> > > gets configured (given the I/O address and IRQ which I set up before
hand) during the install.
> > > Does FreeBSD do something like this, and, does anyone know if the
D-Link card is on that list
> > > in the latest release?
> > >
> > >  Wow, sorry, I didn't mean to babble, nerves. :-)
> > >
> > >  Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Lee.
> > >
> >
> > We have some here and thay work just fine.
> > Kevin
>
>
> Forgot to mention that if you don't turn off autoselect you'll get a
warning at
> boot time asking you to do so. Select the cable type you'r using " has to
be
> done in DOS "
> Kevin
>
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