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Date:      Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:03:25 -0700
From:      "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Obnoxious ethernet and other curious wonders of the world
Message-ID:  <36BBB0FD.41F87EF9@infowest.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902052025370.4877-100000@mp-dbs.mp.intralex>

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"Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@mp.lex.gob.gt>
> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:
> 
> > Here's a puzzler:
> >
> > My 3.0-STABLE kernel as of 3 Feb. 1999 works wonderfully and the fxp0
> > ethernet driver for the on-the-motherboard Intel EtherExpress 10/100 works
> > well.
> >
> > Advance 2 days.  I add a SoundBlaster card to the box and recompile the
> > kernel to support the voxware stuff (using the SAME sources the other kernel
> > was compiled from, the 3 Feb. 1999 STABLE sources), reboot, and...
> >
> > fxp0: device timeout
> 
> It looks to me like a resource conflict. Make sure your network device is
> not configured for the same resources as any of the sound system modules.
> PNP is not as smart as it should be... it sometimes shows little respect
> for resources which are already owned by non-pnp devices.
> 
> Try leaving the sound card configured with IRQ 10, dma 1:6, I/O 0x530, and
> your ethernet as IRQ 5, 0x210 (mine is configured that way and works
> well). You will probably need to re-configure pnp stuff using kernel
> configuration in CLI mode.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Victor Carranza

Thanks for the tip!  I recompiled my kernel telling the sound card to use
IRQ 10, modified my /kernel.config pnp statements to match, rebooted, and at
last I have sound and networking simultaneously!  :)

Aaron out.

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