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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:04:09 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ie0 and fe0 probes in 4.0-CURRENT GENERIC break ep0 probe
Message-ID:  <20000227200409.F21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000227222118.5881H-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from robert@cyrus.watson.org on Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 10:24:05PM -0500
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000227222118.5881H-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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* Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> [000227 19:53] wrote:
> 
> I've posted about this previously, and am still hoping for a useful answer
> :-).  I have a box with an ISA 3Com 3C509 Etherlink III card in it, but
> the ie0 and fe0 probes now come before the ep0 probe in the boot sequence.
> If those two probes are enabled, as they are on the same port (0x300) they
> leave ep0 in a state wherein the system crashes after the ep0 probe.
> I'm not sure what the right answer is here--reorder the probes?  Change
> the ep0 probe?  Either way, things are not very happy :-).  Suggestions
> welcome.
> 
> (This is the second of two machines I tried to upgrade to 4.0, with ISA
> ethernet cards, and both crash nastily with the GENERIC kernel as is)

er, disable them in the visual boot config?

-Alfred


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