Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 17:39:57 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970719173428.6835A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199707191330.GAA18837@implode.root.com>
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On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >> irq 5 is used because it is the standard for all 8bit Western Digital > >> 8003 cards and all 3Com 3c503 boards. I think it might even be the standard > >> for Novell NE1000/NE2000 cards. In other words, it's far more common than > >> irq 10 which is only found on 16bit WD/SMC cards. > > > >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. > *Most* computers don't use the second com port unless they have a modem in which case they usually don't have an ethernet card. So nobody even notices. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project >
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