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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:09:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: Re: autoprobe for ep0
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Francis Vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > I don't know what you mean by autoprobe, but if someone wants that level
> > of support, it must be written, and AFAIK no one is writing it at current.
> 
> autoprobing means you don't need to specify during compilation (of the
> kernel) the IRQ, etc. that the NIC needs. the driver does it for you. i
> think Donald Becker of NASA is the one handling the drivers for the 3Com
> NICs for Linux.

OK, I see.  I know the 3Coms have a super-secret read/write port at 0x100
or so, maybe that driver is using it.  

FreeBSD has a boot-time configuration; as long as the driver and
USERCONFIG is in the kernel, you can configure it by putting `-c' on the
Boot: prompt.

> > Cool.  I use it to do all of my CIS projects, well the ones I can get
> > compilers for in our expansive ports tree :-) 
> 
> we're using FreeBSD for all our proxy/cache servers and SQL server.

Even more cool. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major