Subject: Re: Fw: HP PC LAN
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: dkwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/08/2001 22:48:46
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
Cc: dkwok <dkwok@iware.com.au>; <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: HP PC LAN


> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:04:26AM -0400, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> > Good question.  I see some drivers can do this (the ep, for example),
but
> > I'm not quite sure where that logic is kept.  I've never had to, so I
> > never investigated it ;-)
> >
> > You may be able to do that - try something like:
> >
> > nele* at isa? port ? irq ? drq ?
>
> You can only do that for devices that have drivers capable of finding
> out the I/O addresses (and interrupts and DMA channels) themselves. On
> the ISA bus, this basically means peeking/poking at some addresses that
> you think it is on, and see if it's indeed there.
>
> Generally this has not been implemented because you might accidentally
> do bad things to another device at that address.
>
So how can I find out what settings the card does? As a matte of fact I want
to install 2 such into the system. Would I be able to manually make
different setting?

david Kwok