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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2000 10:00:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Thomas Veldhouse <veldy@visi.com>
Cc:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing over the wire with a tulip card...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001071000100.8867-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001071151200.23185-100000@isis.visi.com>

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Hmm. Very interesting and subtle. I'll check this out. Gawd, PCs are
*soooo* lame....

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Thomas Veldhouse wrote:

> I wouldn't think so.  However, the problem disappears when the PNP OS
> setting is set to OFF on another box - and it reappears when I turn it
> back on.  When Linux boots - it says something to the extent that the card
> has not been initialized by the BIOS - and then it does it - this is when
> the driver detects it.  Oddly, it does have an IRQ under FreeBSD - it just
> doesn't work [with PNP OS on].  I used to get this problem  [Not PNP
> OS related though] with "auto" under the interfaces section of 
> /etc/rc.conf.  Overriding that with "lo0 de0" has not fixed the problem.
> 
> I had to get a different card for my box without the option to
> run PNP OS off, a PNIC II based Linksys card.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@visi.com
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This shouldn't be a PNP-OS issue because this is a PCI card- the card is
> > seen during booting- which means it's getting detected. I don't know why
> > 'ifconfig -l' doesn't see it though.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> 



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