From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 2: 3:28 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 7E7AA37BC65 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 02:03:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA28553 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:03:18 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 28549; Mon Jun 19 11:03:11 2000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:05:30 +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: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: PCI Plug 'n' Pray and old BIOSes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I have a Genius Hub Card (basically an Ethernet NIC that also acts as a four port hub). I would ideally like to use this card in an old 486DX4 machine which acts as a ppp router. The card is detected (under both Windoze and FreeBSD) as a RealTek card (the model number escapes me right now). I installed 4.0-R on this machine, which detects the card, but gives me "ed0: device timeout" messages. Usually this is because the interrupt is misconfigured, but I don't think that is the case here. 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). Anyway, when I get a chance I would like to try it again in the 486. The 486 has three PCI slots, and the BIOS has some additional settings which may be the reason it wasn't working. I'm unfamiliar with what some of these do, and am hoping that someone on the list may have experience with early days of PCI and Plug 'n Play, and be able to help. These are the settings: Slot n IRQ Line (this is the only one I set on my first attempt, to 12) Slot n Latency Timer (ranges from 0..255 PCICLK) (was on 255) On Board PCI/SCSI BIOS Enabled/Disabled (was disabled) CC State Machine: Data Write 0 WS Enabled/Disabled (was disabled) Data Read 0 WS Enabled/Disabled (was disabled) 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. Any ideas? TIA 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