Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:09:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: autoprobe for ep0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126150849.19241P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126090944.272A-100000@cody.usls.edu>
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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
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