>Everytime I wanna insert I/O or Irq settings I m confronted to a dilemma:
>Linux users always tell me enter I/O in a format like " 0x300 ". But I
>always knew I/O in format such as " 3F8 "
>or "6000-600F".
>Could anyone make that clear for me.
>It s probably why, when I try configuring my ethernet card, all the I/O
>that I try to assign to it..even the right one ..are rejected (cause as
>I/O, I ve tried I/O like 3FF-3G0..and so on..).
>John C.
Because with Unix, you can enter numbers in Hex, decimal and octal. The
0x tell the program that is reading the value that it is a Hex value.
Doing nothing makes it a decimal, and obviously 3ff is not a decimal number.
In other words, you were thinking like MicroSh!t, very narrow-minded. With
Linux you can be broad-minded and use numbers in different formats.
MB
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