Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:56:13 -0600 From: kitsune <kitsune@gmx.co.uk> To: Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling uhci at boot-time Message-ID: <20030220095613.24c4ac5e.kitsune@gmx.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3E552930.6020208@xwave.com> References: <3E552930.6020208@xwave.com>
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:14:56 -0500 Dwayne MacKinnon <Dwayne.MacKinnon@xwave.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been tasked with putting FreeBSD on a laptop at work. The problem > I'm having is this: The USB controller is setting up as IRQ 10, while > another piece of hardware is hard-coded to that IRQ. Hence, the kernel > panics on a page-fault at boot time, meaning I can't even start the install. > > The laptop is a Eurocom 3100b and its BIOS doesn't have a setting to > shut off the USB stuff. (I upgraded the BIOS just to see if that would > help. It didn't.) I tried to disable USB in the kernel config utility, > only to discover that to the kernel config utility uhci doesn't exist. > > So what I'm asking is this: is there any way around this problem, or do > I inform my boss that he's asking the impossible? I don't know if what ye want is possible or not, but the simple solution, yet not pretty, I would do is to remove the hhd put it in another box, install freebsd, recompile the kernel with out USB. Then if ye want USB you can just load the kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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