From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 3c509b troubles
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:42:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0808291634300.5457@peregrin.orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3df301650808291611k71494638saab56b16cb289668@mail.gmail.com>
> a windows machine with isa slots will be available to me on tuesday.
> i'll try this out and see what happens. of course a better solution
> would be to just fork over the cash for a better card...
Where can you even buy an ISA Ethernet (or any) card these days? I don't
even see them on Ebay or Craiglist these days. As far as ISA Ethernet
cards go, in my experience the '509 was one of the most reliable ones ever
made. In the early 1990s I deployed several hundred of these in various
university workstation labs running Windows 3.11 and BSD/OS, and they just
plain worked.
Referring to an earlier message in this thread, the string 'irq=nn' on
the ether0= line in the .ini file just tells the kernel what IRQ to speak
to the card on. It doesn't actually re-configure the card to use that IRQ.
(The original message was a bit ambiguous about this.)
--lyndon
Don't count your chickens, eat them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 17:40 michael block
2008-08-29 18:06 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-29 22:56 ` michael block
2008-08-29 18:42 ` Antonin Vecera
2008-08-29 19:20 ` plan9
2008-08-29 23:11 ` michael block
2008-08-29 23:42 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2008-08-30 0:05 ` michael block
2008-08-30 0:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2008-08-30 3:39 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-30 1:25 ` michael block
2008-08-30 5:05 ` lucio
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