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From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall)
Subject: Re: ecinit on ifconfig
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:44:04 GMT
Message-ID: <BtKCLH.B3o@ibmpcug.co.uk>
References: <BtHKpH.3Lx@ibmpcug.co.uk> <veit.714673047@du9ds3> <1992Aug25.144402.27686@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
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>> Apparently a "scalpel" left in the code (ifconfig or ec-driver). Try
>> ifconfig with a redirection to /dev/null to identify whether it is in
>> the driver or in ifconfig.
>
>No. You won't see any error message anymore. Try to find the message
>"ecinit" in the kernel and patch it (e.g. using any DOS disk tool). Replace
>it by a character null (may be there's an escape sequence before "ecinit",
>but then there should be another one behind it - I don't know). Another hack
>could be to call
>

Gee, And I thought 386BSD came with full kernel sources.

What is the point of binary hacking the kernel when you have a 
perfectly good source editor?

Adrian

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