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Date:      Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:01:17 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You?
Message-ID:  <199902182001.NAA06456@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902180609.WAA03463@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 17, 99 10:09:49 pm

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> > It's true that with most highly-integrated peripheral controllers
> > (including the 82558), it's hard to deviate much from the reference
> > design. But what else is at the port addresses scanned by the various
> > drivers (not just the fxp driver, but others)? It's possible that
> > some arcane bit of motherboard hardware is being messed up -- perhaps
> > by a driver that isn't even finding the peripheral it's looking for.
> > IBM machines are like that.
> 
> Brett, I take back everything I said about offering you hardware to 
> write drivers with.  If you're that far behind the ball with the way 
> that PCI works, it wouldn't be even vaguely economical.
> 
> Just accept that courtesy of the marvels of modern PnP architectures, 
> what you are fretting about is effectively impossible.

Does this mean we can change the LANCE ISA probe order back?

It seems to me that an ISA probe could be doing the deed.

Alternately, hasn't the driver been updated since it was last
snapshot?  I remember seeing something fly past, but I have little
interest in the fxp stuff, so I didn't save it.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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