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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: WD Ethernet Card, 386BSD 0.1 w/0.2.1 patch-kit
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 03:56:32 GMT
Message-ID: <C465M9.F39@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
References: <1993Mar18.204637.27855@das.harvard.edu>
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In <1993Mar18.204637.27855@das.harvard.edu> karp@virtual9.harvard.edu (Brad Karp) writes:
>When I cold boot the machine, the driver probe routines successfully
>find the Ethernet card, and things work just fine. However, if I warm
>boot thereafter, the probe routines don't find it.

This is a well known bug in the we driver. As far as I know, no
workaround is available.
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				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

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