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From: Cyclades Technical Support <support@cyclades.com>
To: Randy Philipp <randy@umbc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Help with Cyclades YeP drivers for FreeBSD 4.5
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When you are having this kind of problem, the first thing to check is your
IRQs.  The Cyclom-Y is able to share IRQs, but some other boards are not.
If the boot is hanging after loading the parallel ports, it may be that
the PCI bus is assigning IRQ7 to the PC300, which then conflicts with the
parallel port.  You can verify this by disabling your printer port in the
PC's BIOS, and see whether the boot completes.  You can also try moving
the board to another slot, which may change the IRQ assignment.  There is
nothing which can be done at the driver level to change IRQs, they are
assigned prior to the driver loading.

Al Roth
Tech Support

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Randy Philipp wrote:

> I am having some problems with the Cyclades FreeBSD drivers.  After
> compiling the kernel with the Cyclades drivers, the machine hangs during
> bootup, after the dmesg messages about the serial and parllel ports.  The
> card appears to be detected, but the machine fails to boot completely.
>
> Is this a know issue, I have seen mentions of this problem on the FreeBSD
> Stable list back to May of 2001.  The FreeBSD drivers on your web site are
> for FreeBSD 3.0 which is quite old, which leads me to the next question,
> are you dropping support for FreeBSD?
>
> I know this may be an isolated problem, but I have run into a number of
> people who have had a similar problems getting your card to work with
> FreeBSD.
>
> Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> for your time and consideration.
>
> Randy Philipp
>

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