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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:47:47 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCCARD modem trouble (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199902260347.TAA04166@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:15:48 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902252201300.9630-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> 

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> This is a second post, (with minor revisions)  If I receive no reply
> this time I'll post no more on this problem.
> 
> Thanks for all your past help!
> 
> 
> I have a Dell Lattitude CPi with a docking station and a 3COM
> 3CCM156 modem.
> 
> If I'm not docked I can use the modem, when I am docked it complains:
> driver allocation failed for 3COM
>
> This is a dmesg diff:
> 
> --- nodock      Sat Feb 20 11:44:30 1999
> +++ dock        Sat Feb 20 11:41:38 1999
> @@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
>  chip1: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
>  ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1
>  chip2: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.3
> +xl0: <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on
> pci0.13.0
> +xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:ef:2c:5d
> +xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps)
>  Probing for PnP devices:
>  Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
>  sc0 on isa
> @@ -62,4 +65,3 @@
>  PC-Card VLSI 82C146 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
>  pcic: controller irq 9
>  Card inserted, slot 2
> -sio2: type 16550A
> 
> 
> The pccard.conf has irq 10 as the default for the modem. I change it to 8
> (to avoid conflict with xl0) and it won't work docked or undocked, even
> thouth the dumpcis seems to say it should work with irq 8.

IRQ 8 is never available, and cannot be used.

Find another IRQ; try 11 or possibly 5, or if you don't have a second 
IDE channel, maybe 15.

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