From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 6 7:59:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6061546A for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 07:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@cybcon.com) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@usr1-40.cybcon.com [205.147.75.41]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA27276 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 07:59:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 08:01:06 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com woes....its detected but.............. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I tried 10 and it was a no go.....Like I said this is a pccard on a IBM Thinkpad 770E. Anyway, IRQ 10 got me this in /var/log/messages Jan 6 07:47:57 laptop pccardd[60]: driver allocation failed for 3Com So....... anyone out there with an IBM Thinkpad useing a 3COM NIC that could give me a hand here?.... here is the pcard.conf entry I am useing: card "3Com" "Megahertz 574B" config 0x1 "ep0" 10 insert echo 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574B inserted insert /etc/pccard_ether ep0 remove echo 3Com Fast Etherlink 3C574B removed remove /sbin/ifconfig ep0 delete Also, here is the kernel part about ep0: device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 On 06-Jan-00 Sean O'Connell wrote: > On 2000 Jan 06, William Woods (aka freebsd@cybcon.com) wrote: >> How do I determine what IRQ's are free or used in FreBSD so I can >> choose a free one? > > What is ep0 using in your kernel? I always hard code the > ep0 entry in /etc/pccard.conf to that value (I avoid the > any value irq). > > dmesg | grep irq > > will let you know what irq's FreeBSD thinks are in use. > > ep0 typically uses 10 (as a default); however if a windows > device (pci soundcard or winmodem or cardbus controller or > usb) is listening on that irq, you will want to change it > to a completely device free one. > > A quick look at the Windows Device Manager should let you > know. I have had to use 9 or 11 before, but in all cases, > my kernel irq is hardcoded into the pccard.conf entry. > > Hope this helps > S > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU > Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 > Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 06-Jan-00 Time: 07:49:01 FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods Date: 06-Jan-00 Time: 07:58:24 FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message