From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Julian Back Message-ID: References: <20010312154951.5F453199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Weird bug. Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:02:45 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6fe0a9ac-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <20010312154951.5F453199ED@mail.cse.psu.edu>, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com () wrote: > On Mon Mar 12 08:27:55 EST 2001, DAGwyn@null.net wrote: > > jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > > > Secondly, the SB16 doesn't show up in the iomap output because the > > > driver doesn't call the routine to register the space it uses. > > > That's a bug we should fix but shouldn't affect the operation of the > > > driver (assuming there is no actual clash with another device). > > > > Hm, with a PCI-only motherboard, which is about all one can buy > > these days, the nearest thing to a Plan 9-suppored SoundBlaster > > seems to be the SoundBlaster-16 PCI, which like everything else > > for PCI these days is plug-and-play. Is there some way to make > > this work on Plan 9? > > > > Also, does the 3C905C-TM (PCI) work a a Plan 9 Ethernet card? > > > > It's getting harder and harder to build an ISA PC.. > > If it is truly an SB-16 compatible then it's a matter of adding a > handful of lines to scan the PCI bus for the card to make it work. > But it can't really be compatible because the DMA must be completely > different. AFAIK the SB16-PCI is not SB16 compatible. It's based on an ES1371 chip. The Linux driver for this card is completely different to the SB16 ISA driver. Julian > > The 3Com driver in the distribution requires some small fixes > to work with the 905C, Jean Mehat has them.