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Date:      Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:08:22 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Sergey Homenkow <hsw@vist.bryansk.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum 
Message-ID:  <200107300708.f6U78Mr03459@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:02:32 %2B0400." <1867158232.20010730110232@vist.bryansk.ru> 

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> What's mean "pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum" ?

It means that your PnP BIOS data has a bad checksum.

We don't trust it in this case.  Some vendors don't bother to compute the 
checksum for this structure; we are more conservative than Microsoft, and 
refuse to use the PnP BIOS in this case.

-- 
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also.  But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view.  [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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