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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2000 08:01:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3com woes....its detected but..............
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000106080106.freebsd@cybcon.com>

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Well, I tried 10 and it was a no go.....Like I said this is a pccard on a IBM
Thinkpad 770E. Anyway, IRQ 10 got me this in /var/log/messages

Jan  6 07:47:57 laptop pccardd[60]: driver allocation failed for 3Com

So.......

anyone out there with an IBM Thinkpad useing a 3COM NIC that could give me a
hand here?....

here is the pcard.conf entry I am useing:

card "3Com" "Megahertz 574B"
        config  0x1 "ep0" 10
        insert  echo 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574B inserted
        insert  /etc/pccard_ether ep0
        remove  echo 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574B removed
        remove  /sbin/ifconfig ep0 delete 

Also, here is the kernel part about ep0:

device          ep0     at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10  

On 06-Jan-00 Sean O'Connell wrote:
> On 2000 Jan 06, William Woods (aka freebsd@cybcon.com) wrote:
>> How do I determine what IRQ's are free or used in FreBSD so I can
>> choose a free one?
> 
> What is ep0 using in your kernel?  I always hard code the
> ep0 entry in /etc/pccard.conf to that value (I avoid the
> any value irq).
> 
> dmesg | grep irq
> 
> will let you know what irq's FreeBSD thinks are in use.
> 
> ep0 typically uses 10 (as a default); however if a windows
> device (pci soundcard or winmodem or cardbus controller or
> usb) is listening on that irq, you will want to change it
> to a completely device free one.
> 
> A quick look at the Windows Device Manager should let you
> know.  I have had to use 9 or 11 before, but in all cases,
> my kernel irq is hardcoded into the pccard.conf entry.
> 
> Hope this helps
> S 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sean O'Connell                                Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU
> Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419
> Duke University                               Fax:   (919) 684-8594


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E-Mail: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com>
Date: 06-Jan-00
Time: 07:49:01
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E-Mail: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com>
Date: 06-Jan-00
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