Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 15:22:27 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI probe problems. Message-ID: <199512042022.PAA05192@etinc.com>
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>On Dec 4, 3:31, Carlos Antonio Ruggiero wrote: >} Subject: PCI probe problems. >} Hi everybody, >} I'm trying to install 2.1 Release in 4 Pentium based motherboards with >} PCI buses. In two of them (a Zeus and a noname one) the PCI gets >} probed all right. In another noname motherboard, the bus doesn't get >} probed (though everything seems OK if I install 2.0.5). In a compaq >} machine both 2.0.5R and 2.1 R fail to probe the bus. > >There are too many systems with non-compliant chipsets (Compaq being >the worst, IMHO), and the PCI bus probe code contains many special >cases by now. You may want to try a kernel with the PCI probe code >from FreeBSD-current. You'll only need "/sys/i386/isa/pcibus.c" from >a -current source tree, it should compile cleanly on a 2.1R system. Remember (back-when) Compaq was the standard? (Ha-Ha). db ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25
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