On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 11:19:31 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

there may be a reasonable way to solve this problem.  I will contact
you later today about it.

 > As a related note, the NE2000 driver seems to have
 > some potential for damage too.
 > On my system, I get
 > ne2000_writemem: failed to complete
 > 2 times in bootup.
 > There is a DE200 ethernet card at 0x300 which is
 > obviously hit by a number of register writes
 > before the NE2000 probe finally fails.
 > I don't know if this actually does any harm to
 > the card, I use it only as EPROM holder.
 > (Is it supposed to work now? Last time I tried
 > I always got transmit timeouts iirc.)
 > However, I'm a bit worried because this
 > ne2000_detect() seems quite aggressive.
 > 
 > best regards
 > Matthias

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