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Re: can't install (cont'd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Apr 1 20:23:40 1996
To: Chris Lopes <lopes@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 19:45:39 EST."
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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 20:19:33 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> one interesting thing is that even though com2 is disabled in bios,
> netbsd is still recognizing it... and since it's at the same irq as
> the ethernet card, i'd think that may be what's causing my problems
NetBSD doesn't use the BIOS to detect devices, so it's not surprising
that NetBSD still finds com2. I don't know what's causing the
problems you're having; it could easily be an IRQ conflict.
