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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 09:28:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards)
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: More FreeBSD problems...
Message-ID:  <199604292358.JAA17479@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604291852.TAA08153@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Apr 29, 96 07:52:05 pm

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Paul Richards stands accused of saying:
> 
> > 
> > Hmmm ... OK, we found the scanpci program, which revealed that the card is
> > at I/O 0x6100 and IRQ 11 ... but -c won't let us go above 0x2000. Ideas?
> > 
> 
> Someone I'm trying to help get FreeBSD up on with a PCnet-PCI card sent
> the above to me. Is there any reason to not allow using -c to set ports
> for PCI cards? I know the real solution would be to add PCI support
> if_lnc.c but it seems an unecessary restriction in any case.

They're using the 'visual' mode of Userconfig.  Tell them to do it at the
commandline.  I limited the I/O base to 0x2000 to try to avoid helping
people shoot themselves in the foot; it looks like I should lift it 
for PCI's sake.

>   Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.  (Netcraft Ltd. contractor)

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