Re: about setting IRQ:s for nics

From: Bill Vermillion (bv_at_wjv.com)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:35:06 GMT

In article <86r7ra4rob.fsf@POISTA.kolumbus.fi>,
Santtu Lintervo <santtu.lintervo@POISTA.kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>dantsodelete@yahoo.com (Daniel Tso) writes:
>> I would presume you can d/l the program from 3COM.
>> The program you want is 3C5X9CFG.EXE and it is a
>> DOS program.

>> If you can't find it, email me and I'll send it to you.

>i found that, but i don't have dos. i was thinking
>if somebody has done something similar on freebsd.

Find someone who has an MS machine. Have them make a bootable
DOS disk. The copy the 3com program to that.

Boot your machine from that disk and then run that program.

I always leave at least 30MB on the HD for an MS file system just
for those purposes.

Your best bet will be to get an PCI ethernet card. When you run
the ISA bus card the data flow to/from those cards slows down
to the ISA bus speed. ISTR that is about 8MHz maximum. A PCI bus
runs at 4 times that rate and if you can perform wide transfers
so much the bertter. 

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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