hi, there! On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Robert Watson wrote:
> We upgraded a crash machine from 3.1-RELEASE to 4.0-CURRENT from just > before the EGCS switch was pulled. The machine is a Pentium 166 MMX > overdrive. Prior to the upgrade, it correctly probed the Kensington KNE > 2100 (something like that) with the lnc driver as being at 0x300 irq 5 > drq 6. > > The working 3.1-RELEASE GENERIC w/a change in the config editor probe went > like: > > lnc0 at 0x300-0x317 irq 5 drq 6 on isa > lnc0: PCnet-ISA address 00:c0:f0:00:81:f4 > > After upgrading to -current, the probe failed as follows (when config was > used on the GENERIC quote): > > lnc0 at 0x300-0x317 irq 5 drq 6 on isa > lnc0: Memory allocated above 16Mb limit > > Any suggestions as to what might done to fix it? If we switch back to the > old kernel, it boots fine, so presumably it was some change between > 3.1-RELEASE and 4.0-CURRENT, either in the config file or the lnc driver? i had lnc (AMD PCNet) driver which uses 32-bit mode but it does not work with older (16bit) AMD PCNet cards. Maybe someone should take a look at it and merge with current lnc driver (as I do not have these cards anymore)? /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
