Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!ksand
From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Ethernet Crashes AUX
Keywords: Ethernet
Message-ID: <47903@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 17:55:21 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.235808.10194@swbatl.sbc.com> <2812@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <2814@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
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In article <2814@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>In <2812@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>
>>Your problem is almost certainly that the MacOS driver for the card does not 
>>disable it when A/UX is booted, and your A/UX system is hit by interrupts it 
>>cannot handle.

>For the record, this is also true if you weren't aware that A/UX drivers were 
>a) necessary, and b) totally and utterly different from MacOS drivers.

True, most of the MacOS drivers won't work, they want to peek and poke into
hardware memory space, which the A/UX kernel guards jealously.

Regards,
Kent Sandvik

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