Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 15:12:42 +0300 From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il> To: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3c574 Megaherz PCMCIA problem on FreeBSD 4.1-R Message-ID: <965995962.3993edba653e0@webmail.harmonic.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20000810105641.I51213@stat.Duke.EDU> References: <965918766.3992c02e9fd6d@webmail.harmonic.co.il> <20000810105641.I51213@stat.Duke.EDU>
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Quoting Sean O'Connell <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>: > Roman Shterenzon stated: > : Hello everybody, > : Today I tried to install FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE on my thinkpad. > : I have a 3c574 Megaherz adapter attached to it, and I wanted to > perform a net- > : install. > : The resources for the pcmcia (as seen in windows nt) are: > : 0x3e0-0x3e1 and 0xd0000-0xd3fff (which seems standard to me) > : and resources allocated to the 3c574 are: > : irq 10 > : i/o 0x300 > : When the install started and prompted about pccards I answered > "initialize" > : But, when I needed to install the system, ep0 was unavailable. > : Checking Alt-F2 revealed this message: "ep0: No IRQ" > : So, I started a rescue shell on Alt-F4 and entered: > : ./pccardc enabler 0 ep0 -m 2000 d0000 16 -i 10 -a 300 > : but it gave me an error and Alt-F2 had: > : "ep0: No I/O space?!" > : ./pccardc dumpirc > : shows all kind of information, so I guess the pccard driver works > fine. > : This card works under windows nt on this laptop. > : I also tried disabling all irrelevant drivers in the kernel > configuration, but > : it didn't help. > : Any help will be highly appreciated, looking forward for your > suggestions. > > Roman- > > This is the result of bad choices for IRQ settings in GENERIC and > really limited irq settings options in sysinstall .. sigh. The trick > is to boot your machine into the userconfig mode and reset the pcic0 > irq to 9. The machine and sysinstall should be happy. You will need > to be aware of what irq's are free once you get 4.1 installed and are > creating a proper kernel and setup. > > The problem is that on your machine ... irq 11 is the shared pci > interrupt, and irq 5 is probably already spoken for. irq 10 is > used by as the pcic interrupt, leaving you no free choices in > sysinstall .. grrrr! > Thanks, that really solved the problem. Perhaps this should be added to FAQ. --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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