From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Apr 19 16:30:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1tx.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A0D37B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.and.agilent.com (msgrel1.and.agilent.com [130.30.33.104]) by msgbas1t.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4492A300; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:30:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.and.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F8B127; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id QAA22605; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104192330.QAA22605@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: "Kim C. Callis" Cc: "Kevin Oberman" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NICs & modems Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:01:12 PDT." <002d01c0c924$a199f100$4200a8c0@c2associates.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:30:27 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. No, the pcic device (PCMCIA controller) uses an IRQ (IRQ 10, in your case), but the Wavelan card *ALSO* needs an IRQ. Your problem is that the Wavelan driver (wi0) cannot allocate an IRQ for the card. Looking at your list, you *might* be able to use IRQ 5 (you should really post a complete dmesg), but locating a free IRQ can be difficult, due to quirks in various laptops (sorry, I'm not familiar with Compaqs). Also, you might try putting the pcic device in polling mode (not using IRQ 10), and then using IRQ 10 for the card. However, I believe this is not always possible, due to laptop quirks (I seem to recall that some laptops insist on always using IRQ 10 for the PCMCIA controller). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message