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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't install via FTP... Date: 6 May 1996 07:40:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4mkacu$51s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3187B95A.498E@rpi.edu> <4mjpkf$fn4@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox) wrote: > Can we assume the boot software is recognizing the necessary > hardware [like my ethernet card] when it doesn't complain? No. This is not the world of Real Computers here, this is the world of PeeCees with its crippled (default) bus design where you can't reliably probe most of the devices. (And if you try, e.g. in the sio driver, you're risking to be overcautious since you fail to success- fully probe devices that might indeed work [several internal modems] but are slightly out of spec [since they emulate a UART instead of having a real one.) The most common misprobe is the interrupt line, since most devices don't really allow to probe the interrupt behaviour. (With UARTs being virtually the only exception since they've got a builtin method to shortcut the sender and receiver, so you can send a character and watch the Rx interrupt coming in.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)