Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:12:11 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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At 07:34 PM 8/1/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >IRQ 9 is available on the 7500. I use it for the Ethernet card. I >don't see anything on 10. Greg, you're not following what I said. When the FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE GENERIC kernel boots, it gives IRQ 10 to the pcic and 11 to the video controller. 5 is dedicated to the ESS sound chip and can't be changed. During the install process, /stand/sysinstall offers the user three sets of IRQs for the cards plugged into the PCMCIA sockets. The choices are: 1) 5 and 10 2) 10 and 11 3) 11 only Because 5, 10, and 11 are all allocated, none of these choices works. PCMCIA cards can't be used unless you relocate devices to other IRQs during the pre-boot kernel configuration. This is something that new users won't know how to do, and /stand/sysinstall gives them no help. After a little head scratching, I figured out that I could move the pcic to IRQ 9 and free up IRQ 10, then pick a choice in /stand/sysinstall that included IRQ 10. I would then get one IRQ for a PCMCIA card, and the ep0 driver (for the 3Com PCMCIA card) grabbed it. Only in this way could I do a network install of FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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