Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:30:51 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: james@else.net (James FitzGibbon) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disposition of unknown PCI ethernet solved Message-ID: <199601080900.TAA01821@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960108024605.7696C-100000@else.net> from "James FitzGibbon" at Jan 8, 96 02:51:56 am
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James FitzGibbon stands accused of saying: > 2. The visual kernel configuration program caused be half the problems > with this card because it limits iobase entries for the ed0? device to no > more than 0x2000. Using the command-line config program, it can be set > higher. The visual config editor was not designed with PCI devices in mind, as they were supposed to be automatically probed. 0x2000 is (AFAIK) the highest legitimate address to which one would want to set an ISA or ISA-like device to. If the PCI code (Stefan?) can't bend the ed driver around to talk to this card, then obviously visuserconfig() should be updated 8) > j. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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