From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 8 01:05:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA23597 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:05:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA23493 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 01:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA01821; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:30:51 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601080900.TAA01821@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Disposition of unknown PCI ethernet solved To: james@else.net (James FitzGibbon) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:30:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "James FitzGibbon" at Jan 8, 96 02:51:56 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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." [[