Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards

[Warner Losh]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
: It can make a pretty good guess though; certainly good enough in most 
: cases.

The problem with guesses is that they are guesses and often wrong.

Consider a simple case.  If I don't have a sound driver configured on
my laptop, IRQ 5 could appear to be free.  However, IRQ 5 rarely works
for pccard card interrupts in modern laptops.  PNPBIOS would help
that, but w/o PNPBIOS the kernel could easily be fooled.  This is a
common case if my helping people with their pccard.conf is any
example.

If was easy, we'd be doing it.

Warner


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