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Date:      Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:39:13 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: zp0 not receiving under 2.2.7? 
Message-ID:  <199808110739.AAA00271@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:24:12 MDT." <199808110424.WAA04178@mt.sri.com> 

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> > > Hmmm.   One more try, change the "?" to the explicit IRQ I want ... WHAMMO,
> > > ep0 works.  Well, *was* "?" legal?
> > 
> > It's not so much whether it's legal as whether it works.  I don't like 
> > ? because the smarts behind the auto-IRQ allocation aren't good.  We 
> > don't do enough PnP by far for it to be reliable.
> 
> However, they're do a better job of guessing an available IRQ than most
> users. :) :) :)
> 
> (I'm being both serious and attempting to be funny at the same time...)

8)

One of the contributing factors is that people expect laptops to 
somehow be simpler and more "integrated" than desktop systems.

(Everyone who has worked on laptops laughs; the gallery looks 
puzzled...)

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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