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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12226 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3109 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BT445C == No FreeBSD??? Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Date: 10 Aug 1994 12:45:55 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <32ai63$dmg@fw.novatel.ca> References: <31vk03$mdk@tekgen.bv.tek.com> <31vs36$qgv@tekgen.bv.tek.com> <Cu4w68.99B@tfs.com> <DERAADT.94Aug6165915@newt.fsa.ca> <Cu6KIp.6B8@tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Julian Elischer (julian@tfs.com) wrote: : 386bsd used to do this with the SCSI drivers, but it got broken in patchlevel : 2.4 and in FreeBSD1.x : (the drivers would reconfigure themselves to match the hardware) I believe it to be invalid to reconfigure the driver to match the hardware. While I was writing the if_ep driver, I looked at another driver that reconfigured itself according to the first 3c509 it found. The problem with this is that there was no guarantee which 3c509 you would get upon bootup. You were "fairly sure" but not guaranteed. The last thing I want as a user is to have the card that I normally associate with "ep1" to suddenly show up as "ep0" on some boots requiring me to change my ifconfig's based on my recollection of the MAC addr's during boot... For example: my config file says: device ep0 at isa? port 0x350 net irq 7 vector epintr device ep1 at isa? port ? net irq ? vector epintr because I want to be sure that the card at 0x350,7 becomes ep0. I know that I only have one additional 3c509 in the machine so I don't care what its config is. Note; there's a difference between a driver that reconfigures itself according to the card and a driver that doesn't care what card's configuration is... But now I'm off topic. -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@fsa.ca | <nothing I say matters anyway> "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."