From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Etherlink III problems?
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In-Reply-To: <20011006212625.52F74199B5@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from Russ Cox on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:26:20PM -0400
Date: Sun,  7 Oct 2001 06:32:54 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:26:20PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> > Using the boot floppy exactly as downloaded hangs after "Using 
> > fd0!dos!plan9.ini".
> > If I delete the line "ether0=type=elnk3", the boot proceeds normally.
> > Since rio is running at least I'm not in VGA purgatory.
> > BIOS reports the 3C509B at irq 5. Windows reports port 0x210.
> 
> Does it still hang if you change the line to be
> 
> 	ether0=type=elnk3 port=0x210 irq=5
> 
PnP hell?  It sure made a big difference when I switched PnP off
on a 3C509B as recommended by someone on this forum.

I also had to release IRQ 10 for legacy use in the BIOS PnP setings,
but that may have been for NetBSD, not Plan 9.  I imagine it won't
hurt, though.

++L