Subject: Re: Endless trouble with ISA NICs
To: Ernst du Toit <et@houseofet.com>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/04/2004 19:24:28
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:38:26AM +1300, Ernst du Toit wrote:
> 
> On some NICs the cycled blinking indicate 'unconfigured' in ISAPNP mode.
> 
> Once the card has been through the isapnp allocations process the LEDs
> revert to their 'normal' function indicating link status and traffic.
> 
> I've seen some wierd behaviour with isapnp and some IBM 300GL desktops -
> when the kernel boots the NIC gets detected, then isapnp kicks in and
> reconfigures the NIC again, invariably moving it to a new I/O Address and
> IRQ...
> 
> Building a kernel without isapnp solved the problem in these boxen.

Weird, since I don't have isapnp in the kernel. I wonder if trying a kernel
with isapnp would make a difference (and the ep0 configured to attach to
isapnp, of course..)

-Sean

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