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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
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