Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:50:56 -0400 (EDT) From: yossman <yossman@nonline.net> To: tcollier@unleaded.netfueldesign.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Modem (nonwinmodem) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004141240020.44569-100000@yoss.nonline.net>
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i'm having the EXACT same problem as you, PCI modem, hardware-based, non-winmodem, on IRQ12. i tried doing something simple, by redirecting sio1 in the kernel at the PCI card's direction, but it just doesn't see it period. one thing i've been confused about -- if the device isn't really on the ISA bus at all, should you still put the 'at isa?' in the device line? continuing with the modem problem, FreeBSD3.4-R doesn't see anything when the PCI modem is installed, even with the GENERIC kernel. FreeBSD4.0-R GENERIC sees the card almost as exactly what you described. mine is a USR/3COM 'sportster' if they're even still called that now: pci0: <unknown card> (vender=0x12b9, dev=0x1008) at 20.0 irq 12 by the way, after switching the card from the 4.0-R system, into a 3.4-R system, two physically different machines, and then back again, the 4.0-R system seems to 'lose' the 'simple COMM. controller' IRQ -- so it doesn't even know what IRQ the card is at now when i boot it. more strangeness with PCI and BIOS. as it stands now under the original machine i tried it with, with FreeBSD4.0-R GENERIC, the card is reported as such: pci0: <unknown card> (vender=0x12b9, dev=0x1008) at 20.0 for the record, should i be enabling PnP BIOS=YES in the machine's BIOS now? is FreeBSD 'plug and play compliant' now as far as we all know, or should i stick to nonPnP OS in the BIOS and manually configure my slots for IRQs? i've been doing a lot of work lately with PCI devices as opposed to ISA devices, and though i'm not really familiar with how the PCI specification works as a whole, i've noted that if you take PCI cards out of the machine they were working in and re-arrange them, the system gets pretty confused and doesn't re-allocate IRQs properly to the cards.. same if you take the cards out, put them into a different system, boot, then take them back out and put them into the original system, even if you put them back into the same slots. is this a hardware thing or a software thing? is it both? ;) thanks in advance for any additional information. i'm still looking through the FreeBSD search engine and altavista.com for clues.. yossman Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:27:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Toby Collier <tcollier@unleaded.netfueldesign.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PCI Modem (nonwinmodem) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004051924200.3005-100000@unleaded.netfueldesign.com> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next in thread | Raw E-Mail | Index | Archive | Help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD lust.indifferent.com 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0; Mon Mar 20 22:50:22 GMT 2000 root@monster.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 I have an Actiontec PCI modem that I have used before with Linux. I just installed FreeBSD 4.0 and I am getting this message: pci0: <unknown card> (vender=0x11c1, dev=0x0480) at 12.0 irq 10 Is there a way I can get this modem to work with FreeBSD now? Thanks. Toby Collier Netfuel Design CCNA, LBSD Tech Crew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- yossarian holmberg yossman@nonline.net systems administrator http://www.nonline.net/ national online inc. national computers and supplies To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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