From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 12:17:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3349637B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:17:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 84619 invoked by uid 100); 11 Nov 2000 20:17:38 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14861.43361.822875.484924@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:17:37 -0600 (CST) To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: What Is config> During Boot? In-Reply-To: References: <14860.49919.242784.217200@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Drew Tomlinson types: > > -----Original Message----- > > > Then thinking that "at isa?" means "probe and see what you > > find", I removed > > > everything after "at isa?" and recompiled again. This time > > only ed0 was > > > found but it still worked. > > > > Put that stuff back. "at isa?" means "I don't know which ISA bus it's > > on, try these values at all the ones in the machine." Removing the > > information about port, irq, etc. means to try the default values for > > that device, and there isn't one there. > So if I understand the other part of your message properly, ed0 worked only > because it is defined in the kernel.conf file? And otherwise, neither card > would work? No, that's not the case. The system has to have this information from *somewhere*. The places that it tries are the driver defaults (if available, and won't work here), via pnp (again, it won't work here), from the config file at build time (i.e. "device ed0 at isa? ..."), and the userconfig stuff you saw. > That someone would be the installation program. :) I didn't know ANYTHING > about Unix or FreeBSD before I installed this system in September. But I'm > learning... Thanks for all of your help!!! So you think that the ultimate > problem is an IRQ conflict? If I remove ed1 NIC, is there some way to scan > the system and see what is available? Is vmstat -i a good option? I usuually use dmesg. You might check the BIOS setup as well, to see what it can tell you. But the only thing I know of that will make it time out if it shows up in dmesg with the right values is not getting interrupts. That doesn't mean it won't be something I don't know of, though.