From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 00:46:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA22518 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles197.castles.com [208.214.165.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA22386 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00271; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808110739.AAA00271@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Nate Williams cc: Mike Smith , Drew Derbyshire , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zp0 not receiving under 2.2.7? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:24:12 MDT." <199808110424.WAA04178@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:39:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message