> It seems to me that it would be better to initialize all the (non-PnP)
> ISA cards first, and have them claim their preferred ranges. Now you
> can pick the PnP isolate port out of what is left, and also have a
> much better idea of what is available.
Post 2.4 only. It means re-architecting al
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:19:43AM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> And a quick read of the code I pasted instead of just pasting
> suggests instead we should be using the patch below. Question
> however is who stole port 0x279 which is the normal port to use. It
> shouldnt be lp since lp is supposed to
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>
> > Try reserving ports 0x300-0x31f on the kernel command line
> > ("reserve=0x300,0x20").
> >
> > I'm surprised isapnp uses a port in such a commonly used range,
> > though.
>
> It seem
> Try reserving ports 0x300-0x31f on the kernel command line
> ("reserve=0x300,0x20").
>
> I'm surprised isapnp uses a port in such a commonly used range,
> though.
It seems to be a combination of two bugs. The one I posted a patch for and
something odd that is taking port 0x279 before the pnp p
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> Reading from port 0x313 (my ISA NE2000 is at 0x300-0x31f) hangs my
> machine dead. Unfortunately, reading from that port is exactly what
> the isapnp code does on boot, if compiled in
> > Is it the network card's fault (probably), or is there a less invasive
> > probe that isapnp could use (unlikely, I guess)?
>
>
> That shouldnt be possible - we are supposed to start at 0x203 and skip the
> problem area.
And a quick read of the code I pasted instead of just pasting suggests
> Reading from port 0x313 (my ISA NE2000 is at 0x300-0x31f) hangs my
> machine dead. Unfortunately, reading from that port is exactly what
> the isapnp code does on boot, if compiled into the kernel.
>
> Is it the network card's fault (probably), or is there a less invasive
> probe that isapnp c
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