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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Attach IX0 -> address: 0:...:0 ?
Date: 24 Feb 1996 16:14:39 GMT
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jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes:

> > The `attach' command in UserConfig was an error in the first place,
> > and has been dropped now.

> Under v2.0.5, if I DON'T attach IX0, then the installation program
> NEVER SEES the Intel EtherExpress card, EVEN if I disable MCD0 and
> MCD1.

This is likely a bug in some driver, or one of the problems that arise
out of the simple^H^H^H^Hlly nature of the ISA bus.

Did you really disable all devices that you don't have?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)