On September 19, 2005 01:57 pm, mailtrail wrote: > I needed a quick firewall to guard an ISDN line, so I grabbed a K6/166. > This box only came out of service a couple months ago, having run for > several years on 4.3-stable (set up some time in 2001). > > The NIC card that is in it is an ISA bus card, a WD8003 (it was operating > as ed0 in its previous incarnation). More for amusement than anything > else, I decided to use that card, if I could, with a recent version of > FreeBSD, so I loaded 5.4-R onto it. > > I now realize that I no longer have any idea how to tell the kernel how to > find a non-PnP ISA card. > > Here is the kernel.conf file from the old box: > > > en ed0 Interface ed0 (someone correct me if I'm wrong it's been a while) > po ed0 0x300 Port to interface ed0 id 0x300 (bit of physical memory to access the nic) > ir ed0 10 IRQ for ed0 is 10 > iom ed0 0xd8000 I/0 memory for ed0 0xd8000 (for direct memory access IIRC) > f ed0 0 I forgot this one, sorry. > q
> > I don't even remember what lines 1 and 5 mean. How do I set IRQ, memory > address, etc for a non-PnP ISA card under 5.4-R, if that is even possible? > If not possible, is it supported under 4.11? > > This isn't critical by any means. The motherboard has two open PCI slots > on it, so I could just use PCI NIC cards for the firewall, but I am > curious if the old cards can still be used. I also have a second ISA NIC > card, a WD8013, so it would be somewhat amusing to have this box running a > firewall using those two old NIC cards. The ISA bus should be able to > easily keep up with 128Kb of traffic; the old version of the box was a > mail- and web-server, and never had problems keeping up with ISDN speeds. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
