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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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