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Date:      Mon, 03 Aug 1998 09:14:47 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        schofiel@xs4all.nl
Cc:        Free BSD Hardware list <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3C579-TP Ethernet card 
Message-ID:  <199808031614.JAA14170@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Aug 1998 10:24:51 %2B0200." <35C573D3.AFD@xs4all.nl> 

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> Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > Not really; I find EISA relatively uninteresting.  You would be better
> > off studying the driver source yourself, and looking at the output from
> > booting with '-v'.
> 
> I must admit I tried the -v boot also, with no joy. I dug into the
> source (which falls under the eisa device probe regimen in sys/i386) to
> see it is probed as an EISA device, but when trying to build a kernal
> the card appears to be defined as an ISA device at a fixed IRQ under the
> isa bus controller. I have to confess I'm getting lost!

The EISA probes are like the PCI probes; they'll pick up the device if 
it's there, they don't have to be told to look.

Does the -v probe actually indicate that it's searching the EISA slots?

-- 
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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