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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:42:22 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mkerr@kerris.com (Mike Kerr)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with 2.1 Probe?
Message-ID:  <199703060612.QAA10999@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970306010302.304B-100000@lugh.kerris.com> from Mike Kerr at "Mar 6, 97 01:08:38 am"

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Mike Kerr stands accused of saying:
> > > It's getting *really* frustrating.  I've even tried changing the IRQ on
> > > this latest attempt to IRQ 3, but it still won't detect it.  The machine
> > > I'm running is a 386DX-40 with 8M RAM.
> > 
> > Neither IRQ 3 nor 4 are available if you have sio0 or sio1 respectively
> > configured; you will have to use a different interrupt in that case.
> 
> I have disabled sio0 and sio1 in every configuration because I don't use
> them.  I've tried booting with my normal kernel, with the kernel.old, and
> with the generic kernel.

I should have been more accurate; if you have physical sio0 or sio1 hardware
installed, you generally _cannot_ use IRQ 3 or 4.

> I'll try that.  The modem is a 33,600 modem, one of the new ones, although
> a noname.  The 28.8 I used was a Boca, though exhibited similar problems.
> Interestingly though, I am able to get it to detect fine if I a) boot with
> kernel.GENERIC and b) remove the ethernet card.
> 
> Ethernet card IRQ: 10	Base: 0x280
> Modem         IRQ: 5	Base: 0x3E8
> 
> There should be no conflict here, yet if I boot with the generic kernel
> and not have the ethernet card plugged in, it works.  If I plug the card
> it, it doesn't.  Similar config does not work on subsequent kernel builds
> other than generic.

Weird.  What sort of ethernet card?

> If it would help, I could email you my kernel config file.  Perhaps I've
> done something nutsy in it that I've overlooked, but I don't think so.

I'd be happy to have a look at it, sure.

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