From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 2:45:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5DD37B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsddiy@163.net) Received: from xyf ([192.168.1.204]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23252; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:43:05 +0800 Message-ID: <002201c0ce35$da1d0f60$cc01a8c0@xyf> From: "David Xu" To: "Scot" , References: Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:47:00 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try to turn off PNP OS in your BIOS settings. Good luck, David Xu ----- Original Message ----- From: Scot To: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:40 PM Subject: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. > Good day, ladies and gentlemen. > > Problem: On booting I get "rl0 couldn't map interupt", which man rl > tells me is a fatal initialization error. device_probe_and_attach returns > 6. > > Background info: The problem is uniquely with FreeBSD 4.1-R on my Athlon > 750 box, ASUS A7Pro motherboard. The card works fine in the Win98 half of > my dualboot, and an identical card works fine with 4.1-R in my P120. > > A search of the -questions archive shows a fair number of "couldn't map > ports/memory" problems, no "couldn't map interupt", and few concrete > answers... man rl won't tell me anything useful, and the NIC is > functional. > > I have tried mucking about with IRQ in the CMOS setup, but I'm no IRQ > expert and all I've managed to do is stop the box from booting if I set > anything other than IRQ selection. It's entirely possible I'm > missing the blindingly obvious answer/solution. > > I'm not sub'd to the list, so if you have any thoughts I'd appreciate a CC > to me, if that's not standard procedure. And yes, I know it's a > fabulously cheap NIC, but for my limited needs it should be more than > adequate. > > Thanks in advance. :) > > -Scot > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message