Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:10:57 -0800 (PST) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to manually set irqs? Solved sort-of Message-ID: <20020223001057.78737.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020221210942.01f675a0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu>
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Again I find the answer to my problem a couple of days after I despair and post.... The way to set the IRQ is through a neat little progy called pccardc (man pccardc). Have fun with that one. Anyhoo, after having watchdog timeouts at every boot for rl1, then watching rl1 claim IRQ, which dmesg said was for rl0, and getting very confused, I remembered that I had switched slots on one of my NICs for a totally unimportant reason about a week ago. So I grabbed my screwdriver and put the dam card back in its original slot and booted; everything is dandy. Once again I'm humbled before the great BSD gods. Excuse this post if you don't think it's relevant, I just wanted to share a troubleshot problem (potentially with googlers in trouble). I will now reach for an alltogether different type of screwdriver... --- Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> wrote: > At 04:41 PM 2/21/02 -0800, twig les wrote: > >I've been looking for awhile now...does anyone know > >how to manually set the irq for my card? The dev > >exists; it was working before I added the second > one, > >I just want to go in and tell it (or the new > one-don't > >care which) to use a different IRQ. > > Definitely a common problem, so don't feel bad. :) > > I assume one or both of the cards you're using is > ISA. You must get a > configuration program from the card manufacturer and > set the card that way. > Ordinarily this program is part of the driver set > for the card, so you can > usually start the system using a DOS bootable floppy > and just run it from > the diskette. > > After you set the IRQs, I/O range, etc. for the > card, go into your system's > BIOS and make sure the IRQs you chose are not set > for Plug and Play usage; > usually the setting you need to change the IRQ to is > "Legacy ISA" or > something similar. > > That should get you up and running! > > Matt > > -- > Matt Penna > mdp1261@rit.edu > ICQ: 399825 S0ba > on AOLIM > "The trouble with computers, of course, is > that they're very sophisticated idiots." > -Dr. Who > ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's to the game called "Ten Toes" That's played all over town. The lassies play with ten toes up. And the lads with ten toes down! ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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