From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 5 22:12:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA18021 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:12:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA17988 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA10999; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:42:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703060612.QAA10999@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Problems with 2.1 Probe? In-Reply-To: from Mike Kerr at "Mar 6, 97 01:08:38 am" To: mkerr@kerris.com (Mike Kerr) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 16:42:22 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[