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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA209 ; Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:00:42 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Followup: WD8013 card Message-ID: <1993Jan28.175051.4194@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <C1FuJ7.4A9@rot.qc.ca> <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:50:51 GMT Lines: 19 In article <1993Jan26.205504.24467@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >The probe routine could be modified to forcibly reset the card; however, if >this is done, what is the point of having a probe routine (since you must >assume the card is present to reset it)? Well, the ie device driver that I have written does precisely this---that's how it determines that the card is actually there! (It also reads a description register from the StarLAN cards as a preliminary determination. If anyone knows how the configuration parameters should differ between StarLAN and Ethernet, please let me know!) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant