From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 6:30:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CEC37B72A; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id PAA25384; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:30:39 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 25296; Mon Jun 19 15:30:27 2000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:32:47 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Esser Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes References: <20000619145016.A2212@StefanEsser.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Esser wrote: > > On 2000-06-19 11:05 +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > > As I was under time pressure, I pulled the card out and put it in a > > different machine, this one a P166 which works fine (with the same IRQ). > > These are the settings: > > > > Slot n IRQ Line (this is the only one I set on my first attempt, to 12) > > Is the PS/2 mouse interface enabled ? It will try to grab IRQ 12, > and may do so in a way that the IRQ can't be delivered from ISA > or PCI slots ... The may be a psm driver in the kernel, but there is no PS/2 mouse device on the motherboard or on any of the cards. > > Perhaps all I need to do is toggle the PnP BIOS setting, but before I > > pull out the screwdrivers and tear the two machines apart again, I'm > > hoping to draw on someone else's experience here. BTW will setting the PnP BIOS to `enabled' have any effect? > Depending on the time when the mainboard was built, this may be a > board that needs jumpers configured accordingly (i.e. you have to > enter the jumper settings in the BIOS, which will put the number > in the appropriate config space register, but interrupt routing is > implemented via jumper fields ...) I'll have to check that; I do still have the mboard manual somewhere. regards gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message