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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:57:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Weber-Fahr <listmail@helena.callcenter.systemhaus.net>
To:        sean@stat.Duke.EDU
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fiberline Ethernet, part two
Message-ID:  <199904161657.SAA02539@helena.otelo-call.de>
In-Reply-To: <19990416124023.A3265@stat.Duke.EDU> from Sean O'Connell at "Apr 16, 99 12:40:23 pm"

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Hello,

> On 1999 Apr 16, Christoph Weber-Fahr (aka listmail@helena.callcenter.systemhaus.net) wrote:
> > 
> > I append a few diagnostic points - maybe someone here has an Idea.
> > 
> > Excerpt from dmesg, booted with -v:
> > ------------------
> > FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 15 20:28:13 CEST 1999
> > [...]
> > ed0 not found at 0x300
> > [...]
> > apm0 on isa
> > apm: found APM BIOS version 1.0
> > imasks: bio c0084040, tty c0070092, net c0070092
> > PC-Card Intel 82365 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
> > pcic: controller irq 3
> > Initializing PC-card drivers: ed sio
> > [...]
> > Card inserted, slot 0
> > ---------------------
> > pccard.conf:
> > ---------------------
> > # Generally available IO ports
> > io      0x240-0x360
> > # Generally available IRQs (Built-in sound-card owners remove 5)
> > irq     3 5 10 11 13 15
> > # Available memory slots
> > memory  0xd4000  96k
> > 
> > #Fiberline FL-4680 Ethernet
> > card "Ethernet" "Adapter"
> >         config  0x1 "ed0" ?
> >         insert  echo Fiberline Ethernet inserted
> >         insert  /etc/pccard_ether ed0
> >         remove  echo Fiberline removed
> >         remove  /sbin/ifconfig ed0 delete
> > 
> > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq  5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
> 
> I see several reasons:
> 
> 1) it will try to use irq 3 because of the ? in the pccard.conf
>    (first available), but irq 3 is being used by your pccard controller
>    == allocation error
> 
>    Change the irq in /etc/pccard.conf
> 
>    irq	5 10 11   (only include 5 if it genuinely is free)

I had a 5 there previously. Doesn't work as well.

> 2) ed0 is using irq5 ... does your laptop have a sound card? 

No. That's a Toshiba T1910 - nothing fancy. Not even a colour display.

> 3) if irq 10 is avalailable, i'd use that to avoid #2

I tried that as well, but...
 
>    device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr

...not in the kernel file but only in the kernel config at startup. Is
there a problem with this (do I _have_ to use the entry in the kernel
config file at compile time) ?

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr



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