From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 15 22:15:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA10547 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:15:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10535 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA25879; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:14:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adrian Chadd cc: Hinrich Eilts , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Etherexpress 10/pro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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