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author | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-28 21:11:52 +0000 |
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committer | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-28 21:11:52 +0000 |
commit | eca2426b494c26f5421e03cb8f86e626074befbf (patch) | |
tree | 1d63c655e77735b077a5a631b105113aefb6ccac /release | |
parent | 32ef6c848eb975f587a5cb78846a06f969cc0058 (diff) | |
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Now that I discovered that 164SX SRM recognises Intel 8255x NICs and allows
them to be net booted lets document that fact.
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-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml index 2f4a0a0..463aa0a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml @@ -1075,10 +1075,12 @@ cpu EV4</programlisting> <para>164LX and 164SX with SRM firmware version 5.8 or later can boot from Adaptec 2940-series adapters. A test with an Adaptec 3940UW - showed that that one is not supported however.</para> + showed that that one is not supported however. 164SX SRM recognises + Intel 8255x Ethernet cards which show up as eia. Using such a + NIC allows network booting.</para> - <para>In summary: this family of machines is <quote>blessed</quote> with a - challenging compatibility as far as SCSI adapters go.</para> + <para>In summary: this family of machines is <quote>blessed</quote> with + a challenging compatibility as far as SCSI adapters go.</para> <para>On 164SX you can have a maximum of 1 Gbyte of RAM. 4 regular (PC100 or PC133) 256MB DIMMs are reported to work just fine. Whether |