Ethernet Crashes AUX

Kent Sandvik ksand at Apple.COM
Thu Jan 10 04:55:21 AEST 1991


In article <2814 at redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam at cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>In <2812 at redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk> liam at 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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