From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 19 16: 1:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from prod1.c2associates.net (adsl-63-194-249-167.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.194.249.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7EF37B422 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kcallis@c2associates.net) Received: from intrepid ([192.168.0.66]) by prod1.c2associates.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA08186; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:01:14 -0700 Message-ID: <002d01c0c924$a199f100$4200a8c0@c2associates.net> From: "Kim C. Callis" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: References: <200104192106.f3JL6Uc26296@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: NICs & modems Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:01:12 -0700 Organization: Callis, Chung & Associates, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org valiant# vmstat -i interrupt total rate ata0 irq14 1670 0 mux irq 11 1333 0 fdc0 irq6 2 0 atkbd0 irq1 295 0 pcic0 irq10 3 0 clk irq0 1308574 127 rtc irq8 1674932 228 valiant# dmesg | grep irq pci1: irq 11 pcic-pci0: irq 11 pcic-pci1: irq 11 pcic-pci1: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: irq 14 ata0: irq 14 uhci0: irq 11 chip2: irq 11 fxp0: irq 11 pci0: irq 11 atkbd0: irq 1 psm0: irq 12 sio0: irq 4 sio1: irq 3 pcic0: irq 10 on isa0 pcic0: management irq 10 ppc0: irq 7 That is basically it right there... So I am at a loss because there is nothing conflicting with irq 10 (as far as I can see), yet the message comes back unable to allocate. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Oberman" To: "Kim C. Callis" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:06 PM Subject: Re: NICs & modems > > From: "Kim C. Callis" > > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:40:56 -0700 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I am getting the following message when inserting the Wavelan > > > > pccardd[53]: Card "Lucent Technologies"("WaveLAN/IEEE") > > [Version 01.01] matched "Lucent Technologies" ("WaveLAN/IEEE") [(null)] > > [(null)] > > pccardd[53]: Failed to allocate IRQ for Lucent Technologies > > > > When I do a dmsg | grep pcic0 I get the following > > > > pcic0: at port 0x3e0 irq 10 on isa 0 > > pcic0: mamagement 10 > > pccard0: on pcic0 > > pccard1: on pcic0 > > > > I thought maybe cleaning up the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf would make things > > a little better. I changed the memory location and removed some of the irq, > > and still nothing. > > > > Any suggestions? > > This looks a lot like an IRQ problem. Look for available IRQs by > grepping dmesg for the string "irq" and from vmstat -i. There will be > VERY few available. Eliminate 2 and 13 which, I am told by people more > expert than I, are never available. Then edit /etc/pccard.confg to > start with the line: > irq 3 8 9 (or whatever you think is available.) > > You might be able to free up IRQs by eliminating devices your don't > need (like extra serial ports or an unused parallel port). The most > likely are 8, 9, and 10. If you turn off the parallel port, that > should free up 7. Sound cards on laptops may be in a LOT of different > places. Mine is at 5. If your pcic is using an IRQ, it probably uses > 10. > > Good luck, > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message