From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 19:24:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA07329 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:24:34 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA07317 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:24:24 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA13941; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:27:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510190257.MAA13941@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cyb driver (port 0x0 problem) To: brian@MediaCity.com (Brian Litzinger) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 12:27:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: KWWANG@CSUPomona.Edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510182331.QAA15793@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Oct 18, 95 04:31:21 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1042 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Brian Litzinger stands accused of saying: > The problem is that the Cyclades board does not use any I/O ports. > so apparently the FreeBSD stuff defaults to a port of 0 for each > card, and hence the conflict. > > I asked the "knowledgable_ones@freebsd" what to do about this and > never received an answer. Having been tinkering around the edges of that code for a while, the best thing you can do is specify 'port ?', which means that you don't use a port. (The actual port value as passed to the driver is -1) Hopefully, someone (probably me 8() will modify config to allow 'port none' and 'port auto', which should be self-explanatory. > Brian Litzinger -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[