Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:28:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Maxwell <drwho@xnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC causes printing problem? Message-ID: <19990510122805.Y22791@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990509213329.A454@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 09:33:29PM -0500 References: <19990509213329.A454@drwho.xnet.com>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 21:33:29 -0500, Michael Maxwell wrote: > Ok, I have been pulling my hair out over a few things this weekend after > installing a network card. The main issue right now is that I cannot print > when the NIC is installed (in the kernel, that is). > > If I boot off an old kernel (pre-network card), printing works fine. However, > if I boot off the new kernel, if I submit a print job, it sits in the queue > and does nothing. I cannot even "lprm" it. I can manipulate queue status > through lpc, but that's it. > > The only difference between these two kernels is that one has the line: > device xl0 > and the other does not. > > It doesn't appear to be an IRQ conflict. As the notes below indicate, the > NIC is at IRQ 10 on the PCI bus. The printer/parallel system is on IRQ 7. > > Here's the output of "dmesg | grep irq" without the network card enabled: > >> dmesg | grep irq > ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0 > vga0: <Matrox model 0521 graphics accelerator> rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci1.0.0 > atkbd0 irq 1 on isa > psm0 irq 12 on isa > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 on isa > fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa > > One thing I find interesting to note about the above is that both the > display adaptor AND the SCSI adaptor share IRQ 11 (!?!) I don't know > how this is possible, but it seems to work without problem. The display adaptor doesn't interrupt. > I have tried changing the IRQ's of these devices through the PCI > setup on the BIOS. > No luck. > > Here's the /var/log/messages part about the ethernet card: > May 9 19:53:10 drwho /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 15 on pci0.10.0 > May 9 19:53:10 drwho /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:1a:20:8c > May 9 19:53:10 drwho /kernel: xl0: auto Does the Ethernet board work? If not, it's possible that its irq is set to 7. You should use the 3com setup utility to check. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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