> Of course there's a NIC. The driver has no special handling for IP27 and > is capable of reading the NICs on some machines at least. That would be > a rather suprising ability if there was no NIC associated with that IOC3 ;-) There is only a MAC NIC on a machine ths has. Remember that the Octane does not have the BaseIO NIC at the IOC3; both NICs placed there are actually hacks because of XBOW MicroLAN bug. > > This is weird. This means the keyboard will not be operational, and I wish > > somebody (Ralf) looks into this. The IOC3 on IP27 BaseIO is a dual-slot > > device (takes two IRQs, the INTA and INTA+2). > All information that I have says only INTA is being used for IP27. It > will probably take a bit of testing. Yeah, change the interrupt assignments in ioc3.c, plug in a keyboard and try. If it works, everybody wins :) Stanislaw