Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:32:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: bob@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! Message-ID: <20050418163114.L4054@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIECCHDAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIECCHDAA.bob@a1poweruser.com>
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> Tip uses /etc/remote and the statements don't define > as many modems as you are using. Sorry, I should have mentioned that I already modified /etc/remote and did my MAKEDEV stuff. [snip] > If you got that right them move NIC card to different slot to change > its irq # I had the NIC card at the "other end" initially and it didn't work because it conflicted... *sigh* Thanks! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Philip > Hallstrom > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:24 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: IRQ problems b/n USB and PCI modem... help! > > > Hi all - > I am in IRQ h*ll. I'm trying to setup an box to use as an inbound > modem server... > > Here's what's happening... > > FreeBSD 4.9 > Dell Dimension XPS T450 (ie. several year old dell). > Default BIOS settings (switching the PnP OS has no effect). > > One NIC recognized as fxp0. One IDE drive, one cdrom, one floppy. > Three USR 5610B PCI modems (which work fine individually). > > I can access the first two modems via tip, but tipping to the last > one > locks up the entire system (network, console, everything). Here's > the > relevant parts from /var/run/dmesg.boot: > > pci1: <3Dfx Voodoo 3 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 9 > fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x1000-0x103f mem > 0xf4000000-0xf40fffff,0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on > pci0 > sio0: <3COM PCI FaxModem> port 0x1070-0x1077 irq 10 at device 14.0 > on pci0 > sio0: moving to sio4 > sio4: type 16550A > sio0: <3COM PCI FaxModem> port 0x1078-0x107f irq 7 at device 15.0 on > pci0 > sio0: moving to sio5 > sio5: type 16550A > sio0: <3COM PCI FaxModem> port 0x1080-0x1087 irq 9 at device 16.0 on > pci0 > sio0: moving to sio6 > sio6: type 16550A > fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on > isa0 > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > > > I am pretty sure my problem is that the USB controller and the third > modem > are both using IRQ 9, but I can't think of any way to resolve that. > > I don't have USB compiled into my kernel and there aren't any > settings in > the BIOS to shut USB off completely. > > I've also tried killing off sio0/IRQ4 in hopes the modem would take > that > IRQ, but no luck there either. > > > > Anyone have any ideas on how I can get this to work? Should I try > FreeBSD > 5.x? > > Thanks all! > > -philip > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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