Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:16:51 -0700 From: Peter J Jones <p@dancris.com> To: FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8100 and Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Message-ID: <38B7FC73.AAE8168D@dancris.com> References: <38B32D96.6202DA5F@dancris.com> <200002231653.IAA30176@ptavv.es.net> <20000224215939.01652@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
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Setting it to IRQ 10 solved the problem. Thanks guys. Scott Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 08:53:40AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Peter, > > > > You don't say exactly which Xircom card you are using. If it's a > > RealPort-1 card (RE-100), it should work fine with 3.4. I have not had > > any problems with mine since I figured out the incantations for the > > kernel and the pccard.conf file. NOTE: This is not PAO. It's standard > > 3.4-Release. > > > > In the kernel configuration, uncomment the line for xe0 and comment > > out the zp0 and ze0 lines. Then go to pccard.conf and set a hard IRQ > > for the card. 10 seems to usually work, but for some systems 9 and 11 > > might be magic. If you system can boot windows, I would suggest doing > > so, checking the IRQ used, and using the same one in FreeBSD. Don't > > specify the IRQ to the kernel, but put in the pccard.conf. The lines > > in pccard.conf.sample are fine except for the '?' that should be > > replaced with the desired IRQ value. > > > > Rebuild the kernel and reboot. Also, subscribe to the xircom-specific > > mailing list <xircom-freebsd@lovett.com> and/or see the Xircom-FreeBSD > > web pages at http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~scott/xe_drv/. Note that you > > don't need to download the driver if you are running 3.4 as it is now > > in the distribution. > > > > Forcing the IRQ seems to fix more problems with this card than > > anything else. > > > > Also, you probably don't want to run CURRENT or to install 4.0 when > > it's released in a couple of weeks as the driver is known not to work > > with 4.0. > > Thanks for summing that up so well, Kevin. I would just add that it's > probably worth trying to get the card working on a non-PAO setup first. > You can always install it later if you find you need it for some other > piece of your hardware. Not that I have anything against PAO, it's just > that neither I nor (I think) any of the other if_xe developers run it so I > can't guarantee that it won't interact badly with the driver. > > Cheers, > > Scott > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels > Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" > s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- ........................................................................ : Peter J Jones : Unix/Perl Geek : : Surprise, Arizona : Four Wheeling : : www.dancris.com/~p : Jesus Freak : :...................................:..................................: :"... it doesn't work anymore, get me some black tape!" -- Bill Kitchen: :......................................................................: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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