On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Robin wrote:
> Hi,
> Recently I was messing with /dev/nvram (I tried to write something to it),
> but all that kappened was it used 99% of my cpu, so I killed the process. I
> went about business as normal, and later recompiled my kernel. After
> rebooting, I found that my modem would no longer initialize. I stuck it in
> my mom's win98 computer (what I'm using now) and it worls fine. I'm not sure
> if I fried my BIOS or if some setting is just wacked out. Can anyone help me
> with this? TIA!
>
You certainly didn't fry your BIOS, since /dev/nvram just accesses the
BIOS and RTC settings. Those settings are most probably fried however.
/dev/nvram is NOT meant as a general purpose storage device, it is the
configuration of your PC.
Frank
> Josh
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>
> P.S. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I don't subscribe to these
> groups.
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