From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 6 18:54: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABE737B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e871rni53404; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:23:49 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:23:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Drum Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to force IRQ probe? Message-ID: <20000907112349.J7718@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000906204102.C69172@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000906204102.C69172@elvis.mu.org>; from david@mu.org on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:41:02PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 6 September 2000 at 20:41:02 -0500, David Drum wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have an older system (DEC PC XL 590) into which I have installed an > ISA serial port expansion card from Digital Research Technologies. > The motherboard is too old to be PnP; PCI irqs are set in the BIOS, > but there does not appear to be an equivalent option for the ISA slots. > The card is jumper configured to operate on IRQ 5 and 9 as GENERIC > indicates is typical for COM3 and COM4. The kernel was rebuilt and > devices made as instructed in the Handbook (I've built lots of kernels > but have to create devices less often). The ports do not work. > > dmesg reports: > sio2: configured irq 5 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > sio3: configured irq 9 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > > I read some of the related source code (src/isa/sio.c) but have not > uncovered any clues about how I might get FreeBSD to probe those > irqs. FreeBSD has probed those IRQs. It failed. This could be because you have other devices on the same IRQ, or because you specified the wrong I/O addresses. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message