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? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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