Charles Curley wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:29:33AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
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> -> On 23 Apr 00, at 18:03, Charles Curley wrote:
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> -> > And in which case the card is out of spec. The PCI spec requires that
> -> > software be able to assign a base address to the card in all address
> -> > spaces.
> -> >
> ->
> -> The card does appear to be in spec; I can indeed assign base addresses at
> -> will. Also, the important thing to remember in all this is that the card
> -> works perfectly under Windows with the network card also in place.
>
> OK, at least in this respect the card appears to be in spec. I recommend
> that you not specify any base address if you can avoid it. This will help
> the configuation software when you change your hardware around.
>
> The fact that the card works under Windows does not imply that it is in
> spec. It is possible that Windows handles out of spec cards (by, perhaps,
> being out of spec) where Linux (perhaps by rigourously complying with the
> spec) does not. Also, chances are the Windows driver was written by the
> hardware vendor, and could have code in it to compensate for the card's
> being out of spec.
>
> I have not run across any instances of an out-of-spec card running under
> Windows, but then I haven't looked for any. Most of my PCI work I did on
> HP PA-RISC computers, and I had access to the engineers to verify spec
> compliance (which was part of my job at the time).
>
> ->
> -> Either I'm missing something in my trying to configure it under Linux or,
> -> and I almost hate to say this) there's something slightly hosed in the PCI
> -> PnP support on Linux. At this point I've tried every configuration trick I
> -> can think of -- hence my call for help.
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas.
>
Sheesh, to make arguments on the basis of such data is the cause
of jihads.
let's see some output
and some files
like the configurations, and ~/kppprc, and maybe cat /proc/pci.
We haven't begun to dig....
What network card and what modem?
It is hard to suggest ideas and such when working in the dark....
Civileme
