From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: 0.99pl8 ATI Ultra, and ethernet drivers Date: 3 May 1993 15:39:44 GMT
In article <1993May2.023722.14283@super.org: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
:The fix (if verified) should be in the next version of the ethercard
:drivers.
:It's not _really_ the drivers fault;->. The BIOS is upset that the
:ethercard's shared memory doesn't have a parity bit. The solution
:appears to be switching from 16-bit mode back to 8-bit mode after each
:shared-memory transfer. It takes a little longer to do this, but
:it'll be worth the reduction in bug reports.
This is very helpfull to know. It shows I should have been following this
discussion. I had considered this a bug with my Generic.A1 boot disk, but
it seems it is a driver-BIOS bug instead. Although it isn't clear from
this post if the problem will be solved for those of us without ethernet
cards... Its discouraging to have the kernel hangup checking for an
ethernet card only to realize it has crashed and you need to power down
to try again.
Bill