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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:15:53 +0100
From:      Peter Wolkerstorfer <a9203537@unet.univie.ac.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   please help on irqs and more
Message-ID:  <3C076A69.99993EEB@unet.univie.ac.at>

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hi all,

as i am relatively new to freeBSD some problems arose when installing
fbsd on two machines. i hope i am on the correct list to get some info.
one of my machines is a laptop with where i get "ed1 device time out"
errors;
so i read:
http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/4-STABLE/installation/i386/trouble.html#Q4.3.4.
and found:
"....or ? in your kernel config file. 
This will tell the kernel to use the soft configuration"
therefore i edited my kernel-config file to this:
device          ed0     at isa? port 0x280 irq ? iomem 0xd8000
my questions here:
do i have to write ed1 here?
is the question-mark on the right place? how are the conventions to get
iomem right (because it is not written like this when i see it in bios)?
is the timeout-problem the problem of the network-card or the pcmcia
chipset?
could somebody write an example config-file snippet in the
troubleshooting-section? (i think this would double the value of the
text for newbies like me)
anyway: the network on the machine works - i just get this nasty errors.
should i even care?

my second machine is used as a router/gateway/firewall 
during boot-process i get:
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
and when i shut the machine down it says:
stray irq 7
as this is the printer-port in bios and is "hard-wired" i can not
imagine it straying. sould i care about this?
should i comment the ppc0 out in kernel-config or should i just give th
irq in kernel-config to prevent straying?

another problem i have got with kde; 
sometimes it starts - sometimes it won't start because of something like
"cannot read networklist in .DCOMP.....; error setting up
inter-prozess-communication" (i am always in the same intranet with
pre-setted ips - no DHCP);
as it often doesn't work with one user - it will when i log in as
another user. as i can not reproduce the error it seems mysterious to me
(sometimes i can start kde more then one time - like it should be -
sometimes it won't even start once, but then when i login as root it
might work again...)
mysterious! .... any ideas?

thx in advance
peter "wolki" wolkerstorfer
p.s.: are there any plans to enhance the site-search-hit-list usability
on the fbsd-web-site?
the search-results are of no information-scent for most users i think
and it would be a great leap in usability to give some ideas what the
hits are about.

p.p.s.: happy 2002!


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