Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 01:03:58 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.duke.edu>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, gregsmith59@hotmail.com, Brian.Dean@sas.com Subject: Re: PCMCIA Qs: Victory at last! Message-ID: <3A61414E.C06EDAC4@babbleon.org> References: <3A5D3979.C0B0D2EF@babbleon.org> <3A5DD9B1.C6842356@babbleon.org> <3A5FED36.661464FB@babbleon.org> <20010113150413.K90173@stat.Duke.EDU> <3A60E564.1190A2FF@babbleon.org>
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The Babbler wrote: All reety, all righty! I've got my gateway/firewall up & running under FreeBSD. Thank you to everybody for all the help. The secret was to change the interrupts. Here was the problem: FreeBSD was assigning IRQ 5 to the Linksys card. It's not obvious why this was problematic, since a "dmesg | grep irq" didn't reveal any other uses of IRQ 5. However, Linux used IRQ 9 for the same card. I went into the pccard.conf file and forced the use of IRQ 9 and pow! it worked. Note that this is not an argument for changing the default pccard.conf file since the same card works fine with the default pccard.conf in my other laptop. My guess is that there's some other device (soundcard is my first guess) in the Hyperbook that uses IRQ 5. It's not known to FreeBSD, so the 'default' IRQ assignment doesn't know to skip it, but the other device (whatever it is) generates interrupts periodically and blocks the IRQs from the card. But that's speculative; what I *know* is that it now works, and I'm quite happy about that. -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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