Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:01:55 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Xeon2578@netscape.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD with two NIC's Message-ID: <3AB11FB3.9F2AB272@babbleon.org> References: <21662211.7E01A45E.00877270@netscape.net> <3AAEF70C.DFFCFCCC@babbleon.org> <0A3465D9.5B1A3086.00877270@netscape.net> <3AAF6F9D.5A3810D8@babbleon.org> <46CED77F.23FFB834.00877270@netscape.net> <3AB033EC.191F47A0@babbleon.org> <15025.3687.986222.637039@nomad.yogotech.com>
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If you say so, but I have two laptops, and neither of them would work my linksys cards before I made this change, and both of them worked after I made it. Maybe it's just voodoo, but it works for me. And I've had mail with people for whom it also seemed to make a difference. So, Xeon, I'd try it anyway. One thing for sure: it won't hurt. Nate Williams wrote: > > > Immediate device timeouts are usually indicative of IRQ conflicts. > > > > But there is another problem (and it might even be the same problem, or > > the original problem); namely, FreeBSD ships with an (IMHO) broken > > kernel config; at any rate, one that doesn't work with PCMCIA cards. > > > > Find the line that looks like this: > > > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 > > > > and change it to just this: > > > > device ed > > > > and rebuild your kernel. > > The above should not effect PCMCIA cards at all, since the PCMCIA/PCCARD > infrastructure completely ignores the settings above. > > Nate -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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