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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: atlantic.c (utility for AT/LANTIC DP83905 based ethernet)
To: swift@VNET.IBM.COM (Larry Swift)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:09:56 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <s1a38235.031@wposmtp.atlissc.ibm.com> from "Larry Swift" at May 22, 96 09:07:18 pm
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> I have been sent a utility for working with a mystery ethernet card. The
> purpose of this utility is to help me set the EEConfig information for said
> card. It was supposedly written for Linux systems, and I'm having a bugger of
> a time getting it to work on FreeBSD.
> 
> The final stumbling block is a call to ioperm() that I can't seem to find
> anywhere on my 2.1-R system.

Open /dev/io instead.  If you have /dev/io open, you are permitted
to use inb/outb on ports.

Note that only root can open /dev/io for writing.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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