From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 14 11:57:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8382737B5EB for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:57:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA18637 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:58:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:58:36 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems using pccard 3c589c with 4.0-snap install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a followup email, I suppose I'm specifically asking if there's a way to make sysinstall allocate IRQ3 to the card, as that seems to be the differentiating factor in terms of hardware configuration allocated between 3.3-PAO and 4.0-snapshot. I.e., rather than a sysinstall field saying, ``Which of these IRQs should I note use'', instead, ``Which should I use''. Or the like. On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Robert Watson wrote: > > Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time attempting to get a 4.0 snapshot > to install on my notebook (Dell Latitude CPi), which until now has been > happily running 3.3-PAO. Sadly, it seems not to like my ethernet card. > When installing, sysinstall provides three IRQ exclude options before > initializing pccard support--the first option causes ep0 not to be probed; > the second two allow it to be probed, but not work correctly. DHCP > succeeds, but following that the DNS lookup hangs. It appears that the > IRQ is set wrong such that incoming packets are not being observed by the > IP stack, but this is just speculation. Tcpdump running on the box next > to it shows that outgoing packets seem to be alright. Sysinstall's debug > screen indicates that IRQ5 is being assigned to the card--PAO was > allocating IRQ 3 (and it worked :-). > > Any pointers--especially ones that get the install of 4.0 working ``out of > the box'' on this notebook would be much appreciated. > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message