docs/13787: lnc driver isn't really the lnc driver

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 26 17:13:51 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 26 October 2005 12:20 pm, Remko Lodder wrote:
> Synopsis: lnc driver isn't really the lnc driver
>
> State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed
> State-Changed-By: remko
> State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 26 16:17:29 GMT 2005
> State-Changed-Why:
> After a discussion with paul@ i will close this (Very old) PR.
>
> Summary discussion:
> Probably the ISA probe didn't work at the time,
> since they then had to be hardcoded into the configuration.
> There were only 2 types at the time which could have been
> mapped to virtually any set of ports, and if the submitters
> card was not one of the 2 type's, the device would not have been
> detected.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13787

Well, with ISA devices you have to either use hints, or in this case (3.3), 
have the correct 'device lnc0' lines in your kernel config.  Hardly anyone 
uses ISA NICs nowadays anyway.

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