Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:23:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Drum <david@mu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any way to force IRQ probe? Message-ID: <20000907112349.J7718@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000906204102.C69172@elvis.mu.org>; from david@mu.org on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:41:02PM -0500 References: <20000906204102.C69172@elvis.mu.org>
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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
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