From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 21 14:36:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-115.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D67F37B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01923; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:37:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200009212137.OAA01923@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Greg Smith" Cc: finlayson@live.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems getting WaveLAN device (wi0) working In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:23:23 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:37:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > FreeBSD cannot give a nice report of resources already consumed. This is correct. > It's hard > to tell if it even knows. This is a consequence. > FreeBSD sometimes seems to mis-assign resources > already in use. This is incorrect. > Win95 will report exactly what resources are in use, and is smart enough to > disable devices which have conflicting resource requirements, unless it is > OK. Sometimes. Windows is over-paranoid about this. Try eg. moving a PCI adapter from one slot to another. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message