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From: nao@tom-yam.or.jp (HAMADA Naoki)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3Com Card Config
Date: 20 Nov 1996 13:51:35 GMT
Organization: Tom Yam, Edogawa, JAPAN
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In-reply-to: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com's message of 19 Nov 1996 19:51:42 GMT

J.C. Archambeau wrote:
>I think it's the IRQ 2/9 foolishness which for all practical purposes
>is a hardware bug (design flaw) of the ISA bus.

No. In this case, it is a bug of the driver. Apply the following patch 
to the file: /sys/i368/isa/if_ep.c

- nao

--- if_ep.c-    Tue Jul 16 09:15:17 1996
+++ if_ep.c     Wed Nov 20 22:50:22 1996
@@ -450,8 +450,6 @@
     }
 
     GO_WINDOW(0);
-    if(irq == 9)
-       irq = 2;
     outw(BASE + EP_W0_RESOURCE_CFG, SET_IRQ(irq));
 
     ep_attach(sc);