From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 19:51:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA24292 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:51:52 -0800 Received: from borris.khoros.unm.edu (borris.khoros.unm.edu [198.59.155.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA24284 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:51:48 -0800 Received: by borris.khoros.unm.edu (4.1/KHOROS/Feb 18 1994) id <9502240351.AA00545@borris.khoros.unm.edu>; Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:51:16 MST Posted-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:51:16 MST Message-Id: <9502240351.AA00545@borris.khoros.unm.edu> From: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:51:16 MST X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Pentium w/ PCI and EISA problems Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to get install freebsd 2.0 (January CD) on a Pentium 66 with both a PCI and EISA bus on it. I've noticed a couple a strange problems, which are probably my fault as I know very little about setting up PCI and EISA hardware. Anyway, here are my problems: The PCI disk controller seems to be a bit unstable. Under linux the machine would start having bizarre parse errors during compiles when the disk got busy. Under FreeBSD I haven't gotten it installed well enough to run this test. However, when I compile a new kernel for freebsd, it have to do the following: % cp /kernel /kernel.gen % cp kernel /kernel If I do the same two commands with a mv instead of cp, the /kernel file will not boot. If I use the first method, I get to keep the generic kernel, but you can't ever boot from it. It looks like the boot banner is looking at a specific place on disk for /kernel. I don't have this problem on my 486 at home running freebsd, so I'm wondering if I missed something. The other problem I am having is with a 3com 3c579 EISA card. No matter what I set my EISA slot setting to for the board, freebsd picks up the IRQ as 10. I hacked on the if_ep.c file and commented out the check for the IRQ, and it would then recognize the card and initialize it for use, but then I can't ever get it to talk out of either port (AUI or UTP). I realize the IRQ check failing is probably an indication that it just isn't configured right, but I can't get it to work even if I put the EISA slot at IRQ 10. Any help appreciated. Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen | Khoral Research Inc. steve@khoros.unm.edu | 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 (505) 837-6500 | Albuquerque, NM 87110 ------------------------+------------------------------------ This Space for Rent. | URL: http://www.khoros.unm.edu/ -------------------------------------------------------------