Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:50:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Greg Smith" <gregsmith59@hotmail.com>, finlayson@live.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems getting WaveLAN device (wi0) working Message-ID: <200009212150.PAA07960@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200009212137.OAA01923@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <F209GbPn6U9BekWo76U00001332@hotmail.com> <200009212137.OAA01923@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > FreeBSD sometimes seems to mis-assign resources > > already in use. > > This is incorrect. No, this is true. The mobile code sometimes screws up, and attempts to re-use an already active resource. And, it's not just the mobile code. Often because FreeBSD has no driver for a particular piece of hardware, it's unaware of the resources being used by a piece of hardware (a CardBus controller, or an unsupported sound card), so it assumes (wrongly) that the resources it is using are free, when in fact the hardware is still using the resources despite the fact there is no driver for them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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