Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:40:12 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Edwin Culp <eculp@MexComUSA.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards Message-ID: <200001200040.RAA30588@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:35:26 PST." <200001200035.QAA04198@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200001200035.QAA04198@mass.cdrom.com>
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In message <200001200035.QAA04198@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : It can make a pretty good guess though; certainly good enough in most : cases. The problem with guesses is that they are guesses and often wrong. Consider a simple case. If I don't have a sound driver configured on my laptop, IRQ 5 could appear to be free. However, IRQ 5 rarely works for pccard card interrupts in modern laptops. PNPBIOS would help that, but w/o PNPBIOS the kernel could easily be fooled. This is a common case if my helping people with their pccard.conf is any example. If was easy, we'd be doing it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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