From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 12:53:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01BE137B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:53:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17C4543F93 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitsune@gmx.co.uk) Received: (qmail 2682 invoked by uid 0); 20 Feb 2003 20:53:29 -0000 Received: from ip68-109-49-234.lu.dl.cox.net (HELO fortytwo) (68.109.49.234) by mail.gmx.net (mp017-rz3) with SMTP; 20 Feb 2003 20:53:29 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:56:13 -0600 From: kitsune To: Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling uhci at boot-time Message-Id: <20030220095613.24c4ac5e.kitsune@gmx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3E552930.6020208@xwave.com> References: <3E552930.6020208@xwave.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:14:56 -0500 Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hello, > > I've been tasked with putting FreeBSD on a laptop at work. The problem > I'm having is this: The USB controller is setting up as IRQ 10, while > another piece of hardware is hard-coded to that IRQ. Hence, the kernel > panics on a page-fault at boot time, meaning I can't even start the install. > > The laptop is a Eurocom 3100b and its BIOS doesn't have a setting to > shut off the USB stuff. (I upgraded the BIOS just to see if that would > help. It didn't.) I tried to disable USB in the kernel config utility, > only to discover that to the kernel config utility uhci doesn't exist. > > So what I'm asking is this: is there any way around this problem, or do > I inform my boss that he's asking the impossible? I don't know if what ye want is possible or not, but the simple solution, yet not pretty, I would do is to remove the hhd put it in another box, install freebsd, recompile the kernel with out USB. Then if ye want USB you can just load the kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message