Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:07:45 -0700 (PDT) From: brett@lariat.org To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/20908: /stand/sysinstall too limited in selection of PCMCIA interrupts; install can fail Message-ID: <20000828230745.1C23137B424@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 20908 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /stand/sysinstall too limited in selection of PCMCIA interrupts; install can fail >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 28 16:10:03 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brett Glass >Release: 4.1-RELEASE >Organization: >Environment: >Description: When installing on a system with PCMCIA card slots, /stand/sysinstall may offer no viable choices of IRQs for the card slots, leaving the user with no way to activate cards. For example, on a machine where IRQ's 5, 10, 11 are committed, none of the options presented by /stand/sysinstall allows the user to select an unused IRQ for a card slot. (On the machine where I saw this problem, IRQ 9 was free.) While it is possible to hunt for uncommitted IRQs and move other devices to them, this is beyond the technical ken of most users. /stand/sysinstall should offer a wider choice of IRQs for the PCMCIA card slots, and should indicate which ones are free. >How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install via a PCMCIA Ethernet adapter on a laptop on which IRQs 5, 10, and 11 are committed to other hardware. This situation can be forced on systems where it does not normally occur by manipulating the kernel configuration at boot time. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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