Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:41:37 -0400 From: Mark Filipak <filipak@earthlink.net> To: "Blane R. Boynton" <bboynton@u.arizona.edu> Cc: Lutz Horn <lutz@lutz-horn.de>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Disable Plug-n-play BIOS? (Was: Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Configuration) Message-ID: <3CCDB001.55959F52@earthlink.net> References: <ACEHLJHCNJIBDGAKLNNHEENBCDAA.bboynton@u.arizona.edu>
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"Blane R. Boynton" wrote:
>
> Lutz,
>
> I am having a very similar problem with my NetGear FA410TX. No matter
> what I do, the card configures with an IRQ of 3, regardless of what I
> say in pccard.conf, it even configs to IRQ 3 when I use pccardc enabler.
> It seems the consensus is to try and use the fa_select utility to try
> and configure the card. I will try that this afternoon and post my
> results. If anyone else has any other suggestions forward them along
I'm a newbie and I'm am also having trouble. I remember reading somewhere
that the Plug-n-play BIOS feature should be turned *off*. I just checked
the Handbook and it appears to be silent on the issue.
What is correct? Should the Plug-n-play BIOS setting be turned off?
Thanks -- Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Lutz Horn
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:46
> To: Mark Rowlands
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Xircom CreditCard 10/100 Configuration
>
> Hi Mark and the others,
>
> thanks for your time and effort but I'm still not there.
>
> * Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> [20020429 14:01 +0200]:
> > and see what irqs are being reported as in use
>
> OK, as you guessed irq 3 is in use by sio1. In fact the following irqs
> are in use:
>
> 1 atkbd0
> 3 sio1
> 4 sio0
> 6 fdc0
> 7 ppc0
> 11 pcic0, pcic1, uhci0 (why this?)
> 12 psm0
> 14 ata0
>
> > try the following pccardd.conf assuming irq 3 is not in use by
> > something else.... like sio1: for example.....
> >
> > # pccardd.conf
> >
> > io 0x240-0x360
> >
> > irq 3
> >
> > # Available memory slots
> > memory 0xd4000 96k
> >
> > # Xircom CreditCard Ethernet CE3-10/100
> > card "Xircom" "CreditCard 10/100"
> > config auto "xe" ?
> > insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
> > remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
>
> If I use pccardc to dump information about the card I get a list of irqs
> the card seems to be willing to use: 2 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 15. So I put the
> intersection
>
> {i|i is irq not in use} ^ {j|j is irq card likes} = {2, 5, 9, 10, 15}
>
> in the irq line in /etc/pccard.conf. Starting pccardd with this
> configurations still fails :-( With debuglevel set to 4 I get the
> following output from pccardd:
>
> 1 Apr 29 21:31:43 pccardd[148]: Card "Xircom"("CreditCard 10/100")
> [CE3-10/100] [1.00] matched "Xircom" ("CreditCard 10/100") [(null)]
> [(null)]
> 2 Apr 29 21:31:43 pccardd[148]: Using mem addr 0xd4000, size 4096, card
> addr 0x0, flags 0x41
> 3 Apr 29 21:31:43 pccardd[148]: Using I/O addr 0x240, size 16
> 4 Apr 29 21:31:43 pccardd[148]: Setting config reg at offs 0x800 to
> 0x41, Reset time = 50 ms
> 5 Apr 29 21:31:48 pccardd[148]: Assigning I/O window 0, start 0x240,
> size 0x10 flags 0x7
> 6 Apr 29 21:31:48 pccardd[148]: Assign xe0, io 0x240-0x24f, mem
> 0xd4000, 4096 bytes, irq 11, flags 0
> 7 Apr 29 21:31:48 pccardd[148]: driver allocation failed for
> Xircom(CreditCard 10/100): Device not configured
> 8 Apr 29 21:31:48 pccardd[148]: pccardd started
>
> What puzzles me is that in line 6 the correct device "xe0" and the
> correct io range "0x240-24f" are reported. But the irq is reported as
> "11" which is a) already in use and b) not in the list of irqs in
> /etc/pccard.conf.
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