[openbeos] Re: Writing Drivers
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:34:17 CEST (+0200)
Clay wrote:
> Anyway, in order to test the ability to communicate with the
> card, and try
> to send and receive data at various registers, it would be nice
> to..ya know..be
> able to boot up with it in my computer. Only there's this problem
> that when I
> boot up with it in my machine, alongside my DEC/tulip, I freeze on
> boot. I'm
> assuming this is happening because a driver is publishing in such a
> way that it
> appears my card is compatible with it. If I boot up with the SMC
> card in my
> machine alone, it won't freeze. Is there a way that I can boot with
> just the
> SMC card in, and see what driver is "trying" to work, so that I
> can...delete/
> disable it? Any way around this problem would be nice.
Hm... just try syslog output - if you have a second computer at hand,
just use serial debugging to at least see where it stops. You can also
enable a console at boot time in BeOS where such debug output is
written to.
Adios...
Axel.
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