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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