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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Skyler King <sky@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internal PCI modem lossage
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301620020.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199807302138.OAA18143@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Skyler King wrote:

> I am having great difficulty getting FreeBSD to recognize my
> internal "Rockwell HCF 56K DataFax PCI modem."  The last time
> I ran FreeBSD or NetBSD was like 5 years ago or so, so I am
> a little out of date as far as the intricacies of PCI cards,
> PnP, and what not, go.  Looking at the modem config in win 98
> tells me that the modem is using irq11 and i/o range 0x02f8, but
> that there is some special DOS compat.  mode that makes it work
> w/ irq3 and 0x02f8.  I have tried using the visual config. managaer
> on bootup to assign sio1 to both irq3 and irq 11 to no success.
> In either case it tells me that config'd irq11 is not in bitmap
> of probed irqs.  Looking at the pci probes, it looks to me that the item
> listed as pci0:3 is my modem, and it reports [no driver assigned].

The bitmap is telling you that the device is not responding on it's
programmed IRQ.  It may require a special driver, and thus will not work
with FreeBSD.

> Does anyone have any advice for getting this modem up and running?  Relevant
> data follows below.  Should I go out and shell out for an external modem?
> I never remember having any problems with any of my externel modems when
> I ran FreeBSD.

Go external.

> ----------------
> from dmesg:
> ----------------
> 
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> 	configuration mode 1 allows 32 devices.
> chip0 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7180 subclass=0)> rev 3 on pci0:0:0
> 	mapreg[10] type=0 addr=50000000 size=4000000.
> chip1 <generic PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7181 subclass=4)> rev 3 on pci0:1:0
> 	bridge from pci0 to pci1 through 1.
> 	mapping regs: io:22a01010 mem:41004000 pmem:0000fff0
> DPT:  PCI SCSI HBA Driver, version 1.4.3
> pci0:3:    vendor=0x127a, device=0x1003, class=comms, subclass=0x00 int a irq 11 [no driver assigned]
> 	map(10): mem32(41100000)
> 
> ...
> 
> sio0: irq maps: 0x1 0x11 0x1 0x1
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1: configured irq 11 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio1: irq maps: 0x1 0x1 0x1 0x1
> sio1: probe failed test(s): 0 1 2 4 6 7 9
> sio1 not found at 0x2f8
> sio2: disabled, not probed.
> sio3: disabled, not probed.
> 
> ----------------
> kernel config file
> ----------------
> 
> controller	pnp0
> controller	isa0
> controller	eisa0
> controller	pci0
> 
> ...
> 
> device		sio0	at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
> device		sio1	at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 11 vector siointr
> device		sio2	at isa? disable port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr
> device		sio3	at isa? disable port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr
> 
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Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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