From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 22:18:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA28642 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from out4.ibm.net (out4.ibm.net [165.87.194.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA28633 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 22:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikegoe@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net) Received: from aldebaran.ird.rl.af.mil (slip166-72-108-118.ny.us.ibm.net [166.72.108.118]) by out4.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA39972; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 06:18:07 GMT Message-Id: <199712130618.GAA39972@out4.ibm.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Michael G." To: Peter Stephan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 01:15:23 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad 560 X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Michael G." X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal In-reply-to: <3491E779.41C6@cs.cmu.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk First off, go to www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO and read about notebook support. Those items you mentioned you will not need to specifically tell Freebsd about, however; be sure your not trying to use these IRQ somewhere else. I'm running 2.2.5 on my ThinkPad 750Cs, and although it took a bit of work at first (mostly with XFree86) it runs fine. Have fun! Michael G. > First, I apparently have an ESS ES1688 AudioDrive which uses IRQ 5 and > ports 220, 330, and 388. I'm not really sure what this is, but is there > support for it in FreeBSD. > > Second, I have a 3Com 3C562 PCMCIA card. It sounds like there is no way > to use this with FreeBSD. Is this correct? > > Third, is there anything special that I have to do to use the IR Serial > port (COM2)? > > Fourth, do I need to specify the system timer (IRQ 0), keyboard (IRQ 1), > programmable interrupt controller (IRQ 2), system CMOS/real time clock > (IRQ 8), or the numeric data processor (IRQ 13) in my system > configuration? > > I'd appreciate any guidance that you can give me. > > Thanks, > > Peter > -- > Peter Stephan CMU School of Computer Science > pstephan@cs.cmu.edu Research Programmer > > ------------------------------------------------------------ Brought to you by the letters "O" and "S" and the number "2" Live FreeBSD... or Die! COBOL...the language of business! C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN RUN\DOS\RUN ----------------------------------