From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 06:17:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05659 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 06:17:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall2.startribune.com (firewall2.startribune.com [132.148.80.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05618 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 06:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bendede@startribune.com) Received: by firewall2.startribune.com; id IAA14050; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:24:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailserv1.startribune.com(132.148.25.25) by firewall2.startribune.com via smap (3.2) id xma013995; Thu, 21 May 98 08:23:55 -0500 Received: from MANNY by mailserv1.startribune.com; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:23:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by MANNY with Microsoft Mail id <01BD8491.6FA153D0@MANNY>; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:21:21 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD8491.6FA153D0@MANNY> From: Dave Bender To: "'djv@bedford.net'" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: The unending conflict: modems and mice Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:20:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA05638 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As suggested, here's the output from dmesg to troubleshoot my suspected modem/mouse conflict. A free AOL diskette to anyone who can point out what's goofy (aside from that silly offer): freebee# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Wed Mar 25 02:28:49 GMT 1998 jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC CPU: Cyrix 6x86 (486-class CPU) Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x520 DIR=0x2231 Stepping=2 Revision=2 real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 30445568 (29732K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 35 on pci0:0:0 chip1 rev 37 on pci0:7:0 pci0:7:1: VIA Technologies, device=0x0571, class=storage (ide) [no driver assigned] Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f on isa lpt1 not probed due to I/O address conflict with lpt0 at 0x378 fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 3815MB (7814016 sectors), 7752 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S wdc0: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, accel, dma, iordy wcd0: 4125Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray wcd0: 120mm data disc loaded, unlocked 1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa ep0: utp/bnc[*UTP*] address 00:10:4b:74:55:f9 npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface freebee# Many thanks. ---------- From: CyberPeasant Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 10:37 PM To: Dave Bender Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The unending conflict: modems and mice Dave Bender wrote after reformatting: > I've run into what seems to be a perrenial > problem for me on a PC: a mouse/modem conflict. I've dealt with > this in DOS, then in Windows, and in WindowsNT (which I dumped in > favor of FreeBSD). > > Now it appears to have reared its ugly head in FreeBSD. > > But this time I'm stumped as to where to turn. I'm new to Unix (at > least sysAdmin stuff) and I'm not sure what to do. > > Here are symptoms I've seen: > > + When I enter the tip command, and type "AT" the machine freezes. > I have to reboot. > > + In another iteration, tip froze, but if I moved the mouse I got > all sorts of frenetic, weird output on the screen. I also had to > reboot. Post the output of dmesg after a boot. This sounds like an IRQ problem. > The modem is a brand spanking new US Robotics jumperless Plug and > Play 56K modem (motherboard /bios is also PnP -- does that matter?) That's spelled "Plug and Pray" or "Plug and Prey". :) > so I don't know how to tell what port/irq it selected. How can I > find that out from the OS? (Dmesg) > The mouse IO/card is an old generic thing that's been with me for > many moons. (It worked OK when NT was on this particular machine.) > The mouse is self is a $5 computer show special. It ain't the mouse, probably. > I unplugged the mouse and rebooted, but got the same behavior with > the freezing at the AT Specifically I entered: > > $tip cuaa0b connected Sure that's the right device name? The usuals are /dev/cuaa0 ...1 ...2, ..3 corresponding to COM1,...4. > If I don't use the modem (don't enter a tip command) the mouse > works fine. It shows up and a test in Xwindows says it's functional. Then it is. IO or IRQ conflict, no doubt. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message