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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:48:33 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I am contemplating the following change...
Message-ID:  <199707191418.XAA14150@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707191330.GAA18837@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Jul 19, 97 06:30:36 am"

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David Greenman stands accused of saying:
> >
> >It's not the default for all NE2000 clones though. I have several Kingston
> >NE2000 clones where the default IRQ is 3. They work very well (even if I
> >normally configure them for a different IRQ).
> 
>    Yikes! The default is the COM2 irq? Evil.

The two brands of NE2000 clone I am buying at the moment (one uses the
Realtek 8019, the other something unknown buried under a sticker) come
defaulting to IRQ 3 as well.  It appears to be common 8(

My guess is that second serial ports are less common than soundcards.
Yeesh.

> David Greenman

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