Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:20:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 Message-ID: <199504290720.JAA03783@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504290202.WAA02751@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "House of Debuggin'" at Apr 28, 95 10:02:48 pm
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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. ;-)
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