# Uhh... WHAT?!  No, the INSTALL kernel definitely supports the "fxp"
# (i82557, etc.) network cards.  They're far too common to no support
# them in the base installation kernels.

Jason.

When I went to install 1.5, the INSTALL kernel could not find the NIC.
It told me that there were no available network cards by which to install
NetBSD.  I remember this distinctly, because I had to copy over a kernel via
floppy and boot from that kernel.

# I would guess that Jimmy has an *original* PRO/100 -- Jimmy -- can you
# pull the board, look for the big'ish chip (which would be the Ethernet
# MAC) and reply to this mail with the numbers on the top of the chip?

Aha.  I didn't realise that one.

				--*greywolf;
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*BSD: priapic OS