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To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>,
	Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Eric Kozowski <eric@svjava.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Laptop IRQ conflicts (was: Help with WaveLAN Card) 
Reply-To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:44:05 +0930."
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From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 26 September 2000 at  1:56:59 +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote:
> > 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.

     Yes.  I'd guess that it's the USB device that's causing the
problem.

Andreas: are you able to disable the USB device in the BIOS?

     Unlike Windows (and Linux?), FreeBSD doesn't support interrupt
sharing.

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