Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:44:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>, Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Laptop IRQ conflicts (was: Help with WaveLAN Card) Message-ID: <20000926104405.D36385@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000926015659.A51222@cage.tse-online.de>; from braukmann@tse-online.de on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 01:56:59AM %2B0200 References: <200009252100.OAA18978@mina.soco.agilent.com> <200009252139.PAA07209@harmony.village.org> <20000926015659.A51222@cage.tse-online.de>
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On Tuesday, 26 September 2000 at 1:56:59 +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:39:48PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> Now, there was a different poster (Andreas Braukmann >>> <braukmann@tse-online.de>), who does have a problematic laptop (a Sony >>> Vaio). Perhaps you're getting the two posters confused? >> >> The VAIO problem is almost certainly a IRQ conflict problem, but I've >> not had the time to help out on that one. > > Although I denied the possibility of an interrupt conflict (problem), > I took the hint and did a little test. > I changed my pccardd from using irq 5 to using irq 15. > And what should I say? - I stand corrected. The lucent card runs > without a hitch now. :) > That's nice. But I really don't know why. > Actually no other device was (is) sitting on the former used IRQ 5 > and my other pcmcia network cards (Farallon 10baseT, 3COM 374TX) > are running fine on IRQ 5. I think you're confusing "no other device on irq" with "no other device detected on irq". I'd guess that there's some other hardware on that irq which FreeBSD doesn't detect. I've had similar problems on two different models of Dell laptops. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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