At 01:47 PM 10/14/99 , Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:

>jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) writes:
> > I'm trying to install NetBSD on a new Vaio laptop.  The 1.4.1 and
> > -current snapshots allocate IRQ 9 for all the PCMCIA devices I can
> > find.  But that results in `write-only' NICs: tcpdump on another host
> > shows that packets are getting out, but the laptop never receives
> > anything.
>
>The Sony 505tx vaio that I have has a losing "ilink" port hardwired to
>irq9.  The worst part is you can't even turn off this proprietary
>piece of junk in the sony bios.

FWIW, i.link is not proprietary.  It's just Sony's moniker for IEEE 
P1394 (aka FireWire).  
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