Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:38:50 -0800 From: Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISA probe failure (ed0) Message-ID: <9914CAA6-01A0-11D7-8AAC-003065C7DFE8@condo.chico.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <20021127090356.X59344-100000@brigate.speednet.com.au>
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On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Andy Farkas wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Fred Condo wrote: > >> I have a system whose ethernet card is at ISA irq 9, port 0x280, iomem >> 0xd8000. FreeBSD 4.7-R correctly detects and uses this card with >> those >> settings; FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 does not. Please forgive my newbosity; this >> is the first time I have installed -CURRENT on anything (except as a >> stunt). However, a search of the archives did not turn up anything >> that >> seemed relevant. >> >> Under verbose booting, the kernel says: >> ed0 failed to probe at port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd8000 irq 9 on isa0 >> >> I have changed /boot/device.hints to reflect the change from irq 11 to >> 9. > > Two things to try, both of which prolly wont work :) > > - IRQ9 is the same as IRQ2 so try that in /boot/device.hints That resulted in an unbootable system: ed0 at port 0x280-0x27f irq 2 on isa0 panic: inthand_add: Can't initialize ICU Putting in a fresh device.hints (changing only the irq for ed0) makes for a bootable system, but I no longer see the "ed0 failed to probe" message. FreeBSD 4.7 continues to use the card with no problem. > > - set the card at a different IRQ (5 is good) adjust > /boot/device.hints > accordingly. Not an option, this is a jumperless card and the utility disk is long forgotten. Time to cannibalize my other machine. > > Let me know if you still have probs...I've got one of these ed0 cards > lying around somewhere.... Thanks for the tips. I'll file a pr if I manage to understand the problem. -- fc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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