On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > > Your card is an SMC EtherEZ (8416). I think that needs some special
> > > extra tricks to get it supported. Matt Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> > > working on this recently but I don't know if he has it working yet.
> >
> > I've got uncommitted patches that fix this I believe. I need to go back
> > and test them before I commit but they should work.
>
> Ok, I've tested my patches and remembered why I didn't ever do anything
> with them.
>
> *** ISA_GET_RESOURCE(,,SYS_RES_MEMORY,...) failed (2)
> unknown0: <SMC EtherEZ (8416)> at port 0x240-0x25f irq 9 on isa0
>
> ed_probe_WD80x3() doesn't understand boards that have no shared memory.
>
> While these cards work just fine in softset mode, turning on their PnP
> features seems to disable the use of shared memory.
I was looking at the Linux driver and I don't think it would be hard to
use their algorithm to set the memory resource appropriately.
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