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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Hard boot needed for WD ethernet card to be recognized
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.140543.9091@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:05:43 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1992Jul21.190622.26756@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >I've not seen this mentioned before, so I thought I should ask whether any-
- >The error is that one have to do a hard reset of the machine in order for
- >the autoconfigure to find the ethernet card!
-
- I found the same thing, with any ethernet card at int 2 and
- io 280. When I re-compiled the kernel and removed the other
- ethernet devices, this went away. I think the boot config
- program is being confused by one of the other card definitions.
-
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- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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