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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Hard boot needed for WD ethernet card to be recognized
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.140543.9091@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:05:43 GMT
References: <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've not seen this mentioned before, so I thought I should ask whether any-
>The error is that one have to do a hard reset of the machine in order for
>the autoconfigure to find the ethernet card!  

	I found the same thing, with any ethernet card at int 2 and
	io 280.  When I re-compiled the kernel and removed the other
	ethernet devices, this went away.  I think the boot config
	program is being confused by one of the other card definitions.

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Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us