Subject: Re: Deng Hongwei: Floppy boot on IBM TP755CX still failed.
To: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/1998 21:27:07
John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us> writes:

>> >>> >From the dmesg's "ne0: where did the card go?" , I traced the ne2000.c
>> >>> code(/sys/dev/ic), and found my card failed at:
>> 
>> This was the warning I saw when the I/O ports were mapped outside
>> the decoding capabilities of my laptop's chipsets (too many bits).
>> 
>> Any chance this is what's going on here?

Not likely.  The 1.3 defaults won't map stuff outside the minimal
10-bit address space.  More likely is that there's an unknown device
at the relevant memory location.

		Marc