From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 12: 3:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC2A11A6F for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:02:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25732; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:16:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd025574; Thu Feb 18 13:16:03 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06456; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:01:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902182001.NAA06456@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:01:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, mike@smith.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902180609.WAA03463@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 17, 99 10:09:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message