Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:30:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@phoenix.unacom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP problems on install floppy in 4.0-SNAPS from current.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910110928540.91778-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910101549170.480-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Your card is an SMC EtherEZ (8416). I think that needs some special > > > extra tricks to get it supported. Matt Dodd <winter@jurai.net> was > > > working on this recently but I don't know if he has it working yet. > > > > I've got uncommitted patches that fix this I believe. I need to go back > > and test them before I commit but they should work. > > Ok, I've tested my patches and remembered why I didn't ever do anything > with them. > > *** ISA_GET_RESOURCE(,,SYS_RES_MEMORY,...) failed (2) > unknown0: <SMC EtherEZ (8416)> at port 0x240-0x25f irq 9 on isa0 > > ed_probe_WD80x3() doesn't understand boards that have no shared memory. > > While these cards work just fine in softset mode, turning on their PnP > features seems to disable the use of shared memory. I was looking at the Linux driver and I don't think it would be hard to use their algorithm to set the memory resource appropriately. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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