From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 07:19:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA27071 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 07:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA27066; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 07:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA14150; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:48:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707191418.XAA14150@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... In-Reply-To: <199707191330.GAA18837@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Jul 19, 97 06:30:36 am" To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 23:48:33 +0930 (CST) Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman stands accused of saying: > > > >It's not the default for all NE2000 clones though. I have several Kingston > >NE2000 clones where the default IRQ is 3. They work very well (even if I > >normally configure them for a different IRQ). > > Yikes! The default is the COM2 irq? Evil. The two brands of NE2000 clone I am buying at the moment (one uses the Realtek 8019, the other something unknown buried under a sticker) come defaulting to IRQ 3 as well. It appears to be common 8( My guess is that second serial ports are less common than soundcards. Yeesh. > David Greenman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[