Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:48:27 -0400 (EDT) From: cjohnson@netgsi.com (Christopher T. Johnson) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: sef@Kithrup.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <199707212348.TAA26766@NetGSI.com> In-Reply-To: <22424.869361851@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 19, 97 06:24:11 pm
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> > As I just told Jordan... I disagree. > > > > The visual config stuff is neat, and can be a lifesaver... but requiring > > users to do it is going to bite, *hard*. I had to help a (very technical) > > I agree, which is why I'd like to do something other than have to > visit it EVERY SINGLE TIME I do an install in order to change from > that obnoxious default of 5. I have probably installed several > hundred FreeBSD machines at this point, for myself and many other > people, and I have _yet_ to have a single card be at IRQ 5 by default. > > The ed1 entry is also the cause of much tech support for me since > it "catches" cards at 0x300 but invariably with the wrong IRQ, so the > user is tricked into thinking that things work until the install > is well underway and the only message they're now seeing is: > "ed1: device timeout" from the bogus IRQ value. > > Jordan Having installed FreeBSD on 7 machines in the last 2 months, the one thing that all the NICs had in common was IRQ 10, IO 0x300. Every one had to be opened up and the NIC reset to use IRQ 5, IO 0x280 to match the FreeBSD defaults. I would be perfectly happy if ed1 came up as IRQ 10, IO 0x300 which should allow both groups to be happy. Chris
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