From owner-freebsd-isdn Wed Apr 14 3:31:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from hcsext.hcs.de (hcsext.hcs.de [194.123.40.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 322BA14C90 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (2870 bytes) by hcsext.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:29:27 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Smail3.1.29.0 #12) id m10XMv9-0000b1C; Wed, 14 Apr 99 12:29 METDST Message-Id: From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: A short story on PC Hardware or HELP, my ISDN card does not work! To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org (ISDN Mailinglist) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:29:26 +0200 (METDST) Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2143 Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FYI and before i forget about that: recently i bought one of those cheap soundcards to plug it in one of my machines. This machine is a usual machine of a well known manufacturer and is equipped with a PCI and an ISA bus, on the ISA bus was a working Teles ISDN card and everything else was fine. After installing the sound card and configuring its driver it worked almost immediately. But ISDN stopped working, some of you know the symptoms ... /kernel: i4b-L1-timer3_expired: state = F4 Awaiting Signal /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: HSCX B: ISTA = 0x0 /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: ISAC: ISTA = 0x94 /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: ISAC: CISQ = 0x52 /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: HSCX B: IMASK = 0xff /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: HSCX A: IMASK = 0xf8 /kernel: i4b-L1-isic_recover: ISAC: IMASK = 0x2a /kernel: i4b-L2-i4b_T202_timeout: unit 0, N202 = 3 /kernel: i4b-L1-ph_data_req: still in state F3! /kernel: i4b-L3-T303_timeout: SETUP not answered, cr = 43 /kernel: i4b-L3-next_l3state: FSM illegal state, state = ST_OW - Out Wait EST, event = EV_T303EXP - T303 timeout! ... and you all know by now that this is the IRQ not being delivered to or recognized by the interrupt handler. Removed the soundcard, ISDN worked. Plugged in the soundcard, ISDN does not work anymore. Checked memory ranges, i/o ranges, IRQ etc. etc.: nothing all was fine. I became desparate ("this s**t PC crap hardware design !$'%&//!"). What i then did was disabling the IRQ ISA connector PCB trace on the soundcards ISA connector, the ISDN card is or wanted to use (i didn't want to cut the PCB trace with a knife, so i used a bit of adhesive tape to insulate it). And, voila, since then i again have a working ISDN card (and a soundcard) in that machine. Bottom line: a driver can only run if the hardware allows it to run. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 559747-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 559747-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de 22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message