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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:55:27 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Jesse Gross" <jesse_gross@yahoo.com>, "Stephen Hovey" <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: NIC problems
Message-ID:  <000a01c0c30c$caae0540$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <OHEMKELJIJBFDIKJNNMHMEEBCAAA.jesse_gross@yahoo.com>

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You could cut a trace on the motherboard. :-)

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jesse Gross
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:07 AM
>To: Stephen Hovey
>Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: RE: NIC problems
>
>
>I looked, but BIOS doesn't have any settings for the stuff on the
>motherboard (which this is), only for the pci cards. Compaq (who makes my
>computer) says there isn't any way to disable it, other than through the
>Windows control panel.
>
>Is there something simmilar I can do in FreeBSD, to tell the kernel to
>ignore my firewire?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:shovey@buffnet.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:58 AM
>To: Jesse Gross
>Subject: RE: NIC problems
>
>
>
>Ok I gotcha.  To disable the firewire you probably have something in cmos
>that lets you do it under something like peripheral management or
>something similar sounding.
>
>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jesse Gross wrote:
>
>> I changed the kernel by modifying the original line:
>>
>> device	xl
>>
>> to
>>
>> device	xl0	at pci? port 0x1000 irq 5 iomem 0xe8014800
>>
>> originally it was assigned to IRQ 10. I changed it to match the settings
>> that Windows assigned. The card has no jumpers on it. I changed it in the
>> kernel because it did not even show up under the GENERIC kernel using the
>> boot -c utility. Now it shows up, although under 'Other Devices' as
>'Unknown
>> Card' but it is obviously recognized on boot.
>>
>> The other device on IRQ 5 is a firewire (IEEE 1394) adaptor. How would I
>> disable it? It is not in the kernel configuration.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jesse Gross
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Hovey [mailto:shovey@buffnet.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 5:44 AM
>> To: Jesse Gross
>> Subject: Re: NIC problems
>>
>>
>>
>> changing your kernel wouldnt resolve an interrupt conflict if another
>> device is also set to that IRQ - you have to disable the conflicting
>> hardware, or change the irq on the card or something.  How did you change
>> the kernel?
>>
>> Your ethernet card is being assigned 5 - freebsd is apparently not seeing
>> whatever else is on 5 - usually 5 is used by a second parallel port - do
>> you have a second one in there?  The modem you mention wasnt seen because
>> you have 2 serial ports already - you would have to disable one
>of them to
>> use a modem at the same settings.
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I am having a problem where the system runs very slowly if my ethernet
>> card
>> > is enabled, but otherwise runs very fast. I am using the 3Com
>3cSOHO100-TX
>> > OfficeConnect with the xl driver. Someone suggested that it was an irq
>> > conflct, but I fixed that by changing the kernel settings and
>recompiling
>> > the kernel. It appears to have made no difference. I noticed that when
>the
>> > computer boots, the kernel reports the correct settings for
>the NIC, and
>> it
>> > also eports an unknown card on the same IRQ. This is my IEEE 1394 card.
>> > Might this be causing conflicts even though its not enabled? Here's the
>> > output of dmesg:
>> >
>> > Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project.
>> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992,
>1993, 1994
>> > 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>> > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #5: Sun Apr  8 19:53:47 EDT 2001
>> >     root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYHARDWARE
>> > Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>> > CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (499.04-MHz 686-class CPU)
>> >   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x612  Stepping = 2
>> >
>> >
>>
>Features=0x81f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M
>CA,CMOV,P
>> > AT,MMX>
>> >   AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
>> > real memory  = 134152192 (131008K bytes)
>> > avail memory = 127410176 (124424K bytes)
>> > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc031e000.
>> > Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc031e09c.
>> > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
>> > md0: Malloc disk
>> > npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>> > npx0: INT 16 interface
>> > pcib0: <AMD-751 host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
>> > pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>> > pcib1: <AMD-751 PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>> > pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>> > pci1: <3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics accelerator> at 5.0 irq 10
>> > pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1371> port 0x1080-0x10bf irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0
>> > xl0: <3Com 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect> port 0x1000-0x107f mem
>> > 0xe8014800-0xe801487f irq 5 at device 4.0 on pci0
>> > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:da:24:60:be
>> > miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
>> > xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
>> > xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> > isab0: <VIA 82C686 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
>> > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> > atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0x1440-0x144f at device 7.1
>on
>> > pci0
>> > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>> > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>> > uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0x1400-0x141f irq 11 at device
>7.2
>> > on pci0
>> > usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
>> > usb0: USB revision 1.0
>> > uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>> > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>> > uhid0: Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick, rev 1.10/a.00,
>addr
>> > 2, iclass 3/0
>> > ugen0: Logitech, Inc. Camera, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3
>> > uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0x1420-0x143f irq 11 at device
>7.3
>> > on pci0
>> > usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1
>> > usb1: USB revision 1.0
>> > uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>> > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>> > isab1: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1106 device=3057)> at device 7.4 on
>pci0
>> > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14f1, dev=0x1033) at 9.0 irq 10
>> > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x104c, dev=0x8019) at 12.0 irq 5
>> > atapci1: <Promise ATA100 controller> port
>> > 0x10c0-0x10ff,0x1454-0x1457,0x1460-0x1467,0x1468-0x146b,0x1470-0x1477
>mem
>> > 0xe8020000-0xe803ffff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0
>> > ata2: at 0x1470 on atapci1
>> > ata3: at 0x1460 on atapci1
>> > fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
>isa0
>> > fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>> > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>> > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
>> > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> > kbd0 at atkbd0
>> > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>> > psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
>> > vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
>isa0
>> > sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>> > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>> > sio0: type 16550A
>> > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>> > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>> > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
>> > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>> > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>> > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>> > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>> > ad0: 16231MB <WDC WD170AA> [32979/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
>> > ad6: 39083MB <Maxtor 34098H4> [79408/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100
>> > acd0: CDROM <LTN323> at ata1-master using PIO4
>> > acd1: CD-RW <LG CD-RW CED-8042B> at ata1-slave using PIO4
>> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>> >
>> > I also have a modem that FreeBSD doesn't recognize, but I don't think
>that
>> > this is causing a problem because when I removed it from the
>computer it
>> > didn't make a difference. Unfounately, I can't do this with the IEEE
>1394
>> > card because it's part of my motherboard.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Jesse Gross
>> >
>> >
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