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Date:      Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:52:32 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost>

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At 06:13 PM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
  
>On Wednesday,  2 August 2000 at 14:12:11 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Yes I am.
>
>> 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.
>
>Understood.  You'll need to change your /etc/pccard.conf.  

Most users will not know how to do this. The PC Card software should,
by default, choose available interrupts for PC Cards by default. Otherwise,
even if he or she installs from the CD, the user will be left without the
ability to use any PC Card that requires interrupts. That person will likely
conclude that FreeBSD does not run properly on his or her laptop. Odds
are that person will ditch FreeBSD in favor of Red Hat or another
distribution of Linux which does not have this problem.

--Brett



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