From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 10 19:02:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA05839 for current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05832 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA13237 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA21094; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:27:00 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610110157.LAA21094@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments To: stefan@pong.ppp.de (Stefan Bethke) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:26:59 +0930 (CST) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Stefan Bethke" at Oct 11, 96 00:00:45 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Bethke stands accused of saying: > > Well, the few times I had to install '95 or NT (not that I would suggest > '95 being an OS or anything), it detected the hardware (SMC Ultra, NE2000 > clones) without problems (the other cards were PCI). Also I've been told > that '95 typically detects hardware quite nicely (I'm not talking PnP or > PCI). > > I now have installed both 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 a few times, and I think better > automatic probes would be helpful for people "who probably have no clue". You're quite welcome to write one. You do realise that the "if the disk light stops blinking you should turn the machine off and on again" thing is largely there because the sort of brutal probing necessary to find an NE2000 is just the sort of thing that totally screws other devices (eg. SCSI controllers etc.). > P.S. if only the visual editor would support pcvt correctly... What makes you say it doesn't? And if it doesn't, where's the pr explaining the problem? How can we fix something if nobody will tell us that it's broken? > Stefan Bethke -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[