From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 14 15:42:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080641585C for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA08358; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:39:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:39:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Robert Swindells Cc: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lnc adaptor doesn't work in 3.1-19990407-STABLE In-Reply-To: <199904142145.WAA00687@fdy2.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Robert Swindells wrote: > > Richard Tobin wrote: > >I wrote: > > >> My "PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter" has stopped working between 3.1-RELEASE > >> and 3.1-19990407-STABLE. > > >Well I looked more closely and this appears to just be because the > >buffer memory is being allocated above 16MB, and the driver only > >provides 24 bits of address to the adaptor. > > I'm pretty sure I have used it with the buffer well above 16MB. > > >Is it easy to make the driver use bounce buffers? > > You have a PCI card, it doesn't need bounce buffers. I just wanted to point out that it is also broken on a Compaq server I have here, which has an EISA bus. It worked OK (I think, I don't actually USE it, but it probed OK) using 3.1-RELEASE. eisa0: eisa0:8 unknown device lnc0 at 0x8800-0x8817 irq 14 drq 0 on eisa slot 8 lnc0: Memory allocated above 16Mb limit -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) -- "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message