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mailtrail substme at rc.tex-an.net
Mon Sep 19 10:58:47 PDT 2005


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
   po ed0 0x300
   ir ed0 10
   iom ed0 0xd8000
   f ed0 0
   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.



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