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Date:      Tue, 05 May 1998 08:26:05 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ethernet 
Message-ID:  <199805051526.IAA22952@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Tue, 5 May 1998 14:53:23 +0300 (EET DST) 
 Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> wrote:

 > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  9 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
 > 
 > from kernel configuration it does not assign a driver for the ethernet
 > card...
 > why is this happening? 

Because FreeBSD doesn't have a flexible autoconfiguration system, so they
require hacks that glue drivers for PCI devices which are similar to ISA
devices to the ISA drivers themselves.

We addressed this in NetBSD ... quite some time ago.

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