On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Julian Aronowitz wrote:
> Hello Pietro,
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2000, at 12:14 AM, you wrote:
>
> > Hallo, I bought a Mediator and I want to use it with MiamiDx, but I cannot
> > manage it to work. I've the newest driver (pci.library 2.0 and
> > mediatornet.device 1.1), I tried using MiamiInit, I tried using all
> > Ethernet or SANA-II driver, but I didn't manage it to work, the program
> > told me that it could not open the device because it might be in use. When
> > I configure the card manually miami goes in guru, what can I do ?
> > Of course the ethernet card that I use is in the list of the supported
> > boards.
> >
> > Pci Device 1:
> > VendorID: 10ec
> > VendorName: Realtek Semiconductor
> > DeviceID: 8029
> > DeviceName: RTL8029 NE2000 compatible Ethernet
> > ClassCode: 20000
> > InterruptPin: 1
> > IOSpace0: 6000 - 601f
> >
> > Ciao, Pietro.
> > --
>
> Even though I know nothing about what you are trying to attach and
> use, your problem sounds like something I went through with my use of
> Miami.
>
> Miami occupies your serial port. It does this through the Amiga's
> serial.device, its own serial device driver, 8N1serial.device, or
> artser.device. If, after this happens, you wish to use another
> program/package, which uses a different driver, you will get that
> message. The same is true if some other program/package or piece of
> equipment were to first ask for the serial port, and Miami,
> afterwards, asked for that same port, but, using a different driver.
Yes and no. There are two issues with each serial driver:
1) Does it duplicate the crock from serial.device, where the hardware
isn't deallocated until the driver is expunged?
2) Does it include its own code to expunge drivers known to suffer from
problem #1?
AFAIK: serial.device and artser.device suffer from #1, and don't have #2.
8n1.device and v34serial.device don't suffer from #1, but don't have #2.
Miami(Dx)'s built-in driver does not suffer from #1, and does have #2.
You can always get around this problem with an "avail flush".
> As I said, I know nothing about the equipment you are trying to
> attach, but, the situation with port access sounded familiar. And,
> BTW, the simple fact that I can send and receive all sorts of E-Mail
> and be on the Web, shows that I did solve the problem.
No, because the problem you're describing relates to having multiple
different drivers for the same hardware, which I don't expect is the case
for the Mediator. More likely, the SANA-II driver for the PCI Ethernet is
just plain buggy.
Can the driver be opened by something simple like NSDQuery?
Fred Wright
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