Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:46:38 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'Arcady Genkin' <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>, Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 486 speed (was: Still can't get ethernet cards going) Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179673@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Arcady Genkin [SMTP:a.genkin@utoronto.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 5:56 PM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: 486 speed (was: Still can't get ethernet cards going) > > Hi! Thanks for following up on this -- it's awfully nice of you. > > Actually, I got the cards working now. It took assigning different > IRQ's (they had 3 & 5, and I changed them to 10 and 11; apparently > COM1 was using 3, and maybe smth else was using 5), and disabling all > firewall options in the kernel. [ML] That's solved then. > Hmmm. Makes me wonder... You know, I inherited the motherboard + CPU > from somebody else, and I don't have any documentation to it. The > onboard pins to connect the turbo switch or even internal speaker are > not marked -- so I have no clue at what frequency the processor is > running (it doesn't report at the boot-up either). I ran old Norton > diagnostics on it from a floppy, and it reported CPU running at > 102MHz, which impressed me immensely. When FreeBSD boots is says: [ML] Some motherboards (all I've seen run with turbo enabled--read L2 cache enabled) when the turbo pins are open; there may be motherboards which behave differently: look for 2 pins near each other on the front edge of the MB (the back edge is the one with the slots). Should they be jumpered together, try to remove the jumper. Sound pins come sometimes in the set of four, or 2 pins which are not immediately near one another. Norton will always show the same CPU speed because the test loop runs out of L1 cache (IIRC, I haven't use Norton since ages). Another possibility is that the BIOS wait states are set too long; try to play with that. [ML] /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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