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From: j.grinter@ic.ac.uk (James R Grinter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Software config of SMC Elite 16 adapters?
Date: 09 Dec 1994 16:35:41 GMT
Organization: Imperial College of STM, London, UK
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In-reply-to: dobson@info.usuhs.mil's message of 8 Dec 1994 13:51:37 -0500

In article <3c7kjp$dg@info.usuhs.mil> dobson@info.usuhs.mil (Michael Dobson) writes:
   and have built a kernel (thank you Poul for the kerndist!!) with the ed0 
   device preset to these values.  It would be nice if probe could find these 
   values and configure ed0 itself.

That's all fine, until you have more than one card... Therefore you
still need a way of specifying the card. Other systems I've seen
identify it using the I/O port, but I'm not sure how that could fit in
with detecting it in the kernel at boot time.

James.