Subject: Re: install via network on Sony Vaio PCG-350?
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/14/1999 15:05:46
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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