From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 15:22:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sushi.toad.net (sushi.toad.net [162.33.130.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA6637B401 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core18d91.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.188.91]) by sushi.toad.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f86MMF218073; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:22:15 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:19:32 -0500 To: Dan Thill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Needing help with installation... References: <87y9nt6ssm.fsf@yahoo.com> <3B95987F.429E306D@umr.edu> From: Jeremy Date: 07 Sep 2001 18:19:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3B95987F.429E306D@umr.edu> Message-ID: <87heuetwqj.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Thill writes: > I had this problem as well with a system with all PnP, non-generic hardware. > Needless to say, I was ticked off about it. I had an ASUS K7V motherboard that > certain slots shared irq's. I had to rearrange my cards around some until I > found something that worked. I ended up putting my soundcard in a slot that > shared an irq with my GeForce video card. The card was originally in a slot > that shared with USB. I'm assuming that it was probing an IRQ, two devices > answered, and made it lock. > > Also, try turning off the "Plug n Play OS" in your BIOS. Before I turned this > off, the kernel would see all the devices, and print a message, but would be > unable to assign them addresses. > > Hope this helps... Ah! Thank you very much! I had thought of the switching my cards around just in passing once, but after you suggested it, I did it, and it worked just fine, so I finally got FreeBSD installed last evening. (Wow, kids! Can we say "run on sentence?") Heh, thanks again, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message