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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.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: ed1 device timeout on NE2000 compat. card Date: 10 Jun 1996 18:10:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4phoeg$4n0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <eharley-0406960711200001@198.81.209.41> <4p29q5$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4p8aeh$4hn@moon.igcom.net> <31BB7E76.76BD@aol.com> 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 "David M. Fogarty" <DaveChaos@aol.com> wrote: > And yes, I am POSITIVE that the settings are correct. Everything is > recognized correctly by the kernel as well but it still gives the device > timeout a short while later.... *sigh* The kernel doesn't autodetect the IRQ setting, it simply echoes what it has configured in it, and claims this being The Only Truth. So a successfully detected card does mean that the port address is okay, and that the shared memory address is okay (for cards that support shared mem), but it does _not_ mean the IRQ is really okay. -- 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. ;-)