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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
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Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:31:06 -0700 (MST)
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> > Just got some 3Com 590 ethernet PCI boards (because they were the cause of
> > some severe troubles under Gates-OS'es :-) ). Under 2.1.5, with the supplied
> > driver, with Guido's new driver from freefall and with another driver from
> > Fred Gray this card does not run after a cold reset or powerup on the 
> > machine in question.
> 
> Hmm, I see no such problems, are you sure the card in question is
> not one of those first defective ones ?? that would explain why
> billyboys os'es has trouble too. 

Are these PnP cards?

Is PnP enabled?

Does your system have PnP BIOS, or is the OS expected to do the PnP
relocation work?

If the OS is expected to do the deed, is all hardware on the motherboard
itself known to the drivers so it can have its mapping ranges compared
against that of the relocatable hardware?

How about all other cards... are they PnP as well, or have they got static
driver asssignements as well so that PnP support by the OS would not
map them to conflicting locations?


For what it's worth, these are the issues that may bite the MS OS's.

BSD is the same, except it doesn't have the OS PnP support that the
MS OS's have.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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