From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 02:09:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA16142 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:09:48 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA16135 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 02:09:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA00155; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 11:09:31 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA29095 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 11:09:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA03783 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:20:24 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504290720.JAA03783@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:20:23 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504290202.WAA02751@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "House of Debuggin'" at Apr 28, 95 10:02:48 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 797 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As House of Debuggin' wrote: > > - The Intel EtherExpress is very often misidentified by other drivers > (I set mine to 0x300, irq 10, iomem 0xd0000 to match the GENERIC kernel > settings. Yes, I know I could have used -c to change the settings.) > The Mitsumi CD-ROM driver tripped over it twice. Once it was wrongly > identified as a Wangtek tape controller. I don't blame anyone for > this other than Intel. Better blame whoever made the ISA bus specs. See Terry's excellent article in Usenet (the ``Fortunately''/``Unfortunately'' thingie, i forgot the subject). Putting any card at 0x300 is the best way to have it misidentified. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)