Subject: Re: iy* at isapnp?
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/15/2000 21:01:37
<agrier@poofygoof.com> (Aaron J. Grier) writes:

> I have an old P54C I'd like to get up and running as a disk server.  It
> has two ISA Intel EtherExpress PROs, which probe fine with the iy
> driver, provided the boards aren't in plug & play mode.  It seems like
> it would be trivial for someone to add the proper glue so they can be
> attached to isapnp instead of isa.

It does seem that way. I even did it once.

But when I did it, I found that the EEPROM of the card read as
all-zeroes or all-ones when it was in PnP mode, and so it didn't work
very well.

If you like I'll send you my code and you can see if it works better
for you.

> isapnp0: <Intel EtherExpress(TM) PRO Adap, INT1030, , > port 0x200/16 irq 9 not configured

Yeah, that's the one.

        - Nathan