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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: startart mssages
Message-ID: <1992Nov3.020710.10188@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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References: <1992Nov2.102118.8083@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 02:07:10 GMT
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In article <1992Nov2.102118.8083@bristol.ac.uk>, ccnjb@bristol.ac.uk (Nick Bruton) writes:
|> I've just got 386bsd up and running with an NE1000/2000 clone ethernet board
|> I am now getting the infamous startart msgs as mentioned in the FAQ.
|> Can anyone give me a blow by blow account of how to rebuild the kernel to get
|> rid of these annoying messages
|> Thanks Nick Bruton
There are two causes of this problem:
1) The Isolan driver is seeing your card (the problem shows up
immediately after cold boot).
2) The card is not reset on shutdown, and is left active (therefore
failing the probe on warm boot only).
The soloution to the first is to recompile the kernel with only the if_ne
driver installed (modify the config file to elimnate other drivers). There
is a kernel crated by cgd@agate.berkeley.edu available from the "unofficial"
directory by anonymous FTP from the same site.
The soloution to the second is to recode the driver so a reset is done on
a possibly non-existant card every time it's started (this is inferior if
the card isn't present, since it can crash the machine), or to make a mod
to the driver interface to provide a "shutdown" routine for each driver.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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