Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:14:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> Cc: Hinrich Eilts <eilts@tor.muc.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Etherexpress 10/pro Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970415221256.13247H-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970414160130.1289A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > > If PnP of Etherexpress is disabled, it work, but the computer have to run > > > W95 too, and this will fail with PnP disabled (the motherboard is a > > > Gigabyte GA586ATM/P256, which has no support for non-PnP ISA cards leading > > > to resource conflicts if the Etherexpress is in non-PnP mode). > > > > THen you have a bigger problem than FreeBSD can support :) > > Huh? > > That isn't true. :) OK, that's right, but under Win95 you'll have to hardwire the driver to the settings you've specified. > You can specify Windows 95 to *use* a certain setting instead of letting > Windows (/PnP) decide everything. I was saying, if it blows up in both modes then you have real problems. Note that FreeBSD can't do PnP so if you can't get it to run in non-PnP mode consider pulling some devices. > I do this in my PC. I have non-PnP ISA Soundblaster Pro and 3com 3c509, > and a PnP SB32. I just went into my BIOS, disabled the particular IRQs the > non-PnP cards were set to, and *told* win95 to use certain settings for my > PnP SB32 card. It complains saying it can no longer figure things out, but > then, it doesn't do a crash hot job in the first place. > > (For a laugh, try autodetecting a non-PnP NE2000 clone and see how many > times Win95 gets the IRQ right :) It doesn't even detect the card. I've done this 20 times. It even gets the PnP ones wrong! > I think people trust PnP too much. I think it's a joke. Down with MS hardware specs. IN any case, the pro/10's probably aren't supported. The EtherExpress 16's, it's predecessor, are. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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