we don't turn on bus master as that could be very hazardous to your health -- imagine an unitialized PCI device coming up with bus master enabled. It is at that point allowed to do DMA cycles to RAM without having been initialized by a driver. OUCH.
In my opinion if the driver is not turning on bus master it is a buggy driver. If the device comes up with bus master enabled it is a buggy device. Ollie has pointed this out too. There's a lot of buggy PCI hardware in existence. I think the Award BIOS is buggy, possibly intentionally, to deal with buggy drivers (there are lots of BIOS patches that are in there, I am told, to fix buggy device drivers in Windows). I would recommend fixing the 802.11 driver, rather than modifying LinuxBIOS. But let's see what other people say. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
