Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:58:07 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Antoine Beaupre <beaupran@iro.umontreal.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 device timeout without conflict Message-ID: <39AD917F.FC7130DA@gmx.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008291107060.1858-100000@phobos.IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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Hello Antoine, > Then what I should would be to compile the modules (i.e. PS/2 > support) into the kernel and disable it? Oh how would we wish that these > darn machines would have more than 15 IRQs! :) I miss my job's DEC > alpha. :) Would like an Alpha for the price of a PC at home, too :-)) PCI cards are supposed to be able to share IRQs (not always true in reality) So, to the kernel stuff: > > Another thing with PNP... In the 3.x line, there was a "pnp" command > available in the kernel userconfig. The pnp(4) manpage in 4.1 confirms > that, I can't access that command. When trying to compile a kernel with: > > controller pnp0 > > as advised in the pnp(4) manpage, I get a warning about the fact that the > 'controller' keyword is deprecated, and to use the 'device' keyword > instead. > > When using the 'device' keyword, it tells me that 'pnp' is an unknown > device! > > This is not funny anymore. I have a PnP modem here that I _have_ to setup > properly, and I used to do it using the pnp tool. Same with the AWE32 > sound card. (this one, however, is properly detected, thanks to the pcm > driver, but set to IRQ 5, which is usually used by sio2, my modem...) "controller" disappeared completely in 4.x (itīs all "device" now), as did "pnp" as user controlled device. The kernel is supposed to do all the PnP stuff correct by itself. So you have to compile in PS/2 support if you canīt disable this in your BIOS (did you look for newer BIOS versions? On my ASUS P2B I can control all onboard stuff). And you should NOT disable this on booting or in the appropriate conf-file. Just donīt use PS/2. This is true for me also for USB for example (the USB is enabled in the BIOS to make it possible to check out some USB stuff for colleagues under Win98; I never use it in FreeBSD, but kernel module is compiled in, to enable the kernel to recognize the used IRQ). > > Another point to your NIC. Is it a combo version with 10base-2 and > > 10base-T ? > > Nope. Plain 10baseT/UTP. Twisted-pair. Not coax. (that's T/UTP, right?) UTP= unshielded twisted pair > It is a crappy ISA NIC, however. Could it be a hardware problem, in the > sense that the card is broken? I just bought it second-hand.. I think, you said it works under Win? Then itīs o.k. :-) > I have looked into the BIOS for PS/2 settings, and I can't find any. > > The only thing regarding IRQ 12 I could find was wether I must assign the > resource to "PCI/PnP" or "Legacy ISA", and this is a toggle available for > all IRQs in the "PNP/PCI Config." menu. These toggles are available > when I choose "resource controlled by _manual_" instead of 'auto'. In this menu you have to toggle all IRQs to "Legacy ISA", which are used by NON-PnP cards (e.g. the IRQ used by your NIC). The BIOS wonīt use them anymore for PnP-cards then. I donīt know if the FreeBSD algorithms are influenced by this settings, but I have them set correctly just in case. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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