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Date:      Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:21:24 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie>, NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa <y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Purpose of irq's in pcic
Message-ID:  <19990903182123.V95378@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909022316320.34103-100000@earth.fxp>; from Chris D. Faulhaber on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:23:20PM -0400
References:  <XFMail.990902142828.steveo@iol.ie> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909022316320.34103-100000@earth.fxp>

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On Thursday,  2 September 1999 at 23:23:20 -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02-Sep-99 NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa wrote:
>>>>         Do you mean one slot at a time by this ? I can certainly use
>>>> either slot on my machine and I don't have enough irq's available to
>>>> use both at once so I can't comment on that.
>> ...
>>> If kernel missmatch to VLSI, second slot base address is incorrect.
>>
>>         I can use both slots perfectly well, just not both at once. If
>> I understand you correctly only slot 1 should be working.
>>
>
> I must say that I am now thoroughly confused by this thread.  I own a CTX
> 700E with 1131's:
>
> pcic0: <TI PCI-1131 PCI-CardBus Bridge> rev 0x01 int a irq 255 on
> pci0.10.0
> pcic1: <TI PCI-1131 PCI-CardBus Bridge> rev 0x01 int b irq 255 on
> pci0.10.1
>
> PC-Card VLSI 82C146 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
> pcic: controller irq 3
>
> I occasionally use both slots simultaneous, most recently when a
> thunderstorm fried my USR 56k external and I was forced to use my laptop's
> pcmcia modem and network card combination as a gateway for a few weeks.  I
> have had very few issues with this under plain FreeBSD since I got it
> (3.0-CURRENT -> 3.1/3.2-STABLE).
>
> Is my laptop an oddball in this case or have I simply gotten confused
> somewhere along this thread?

The discussion was about 4.0-CURRENT, under which  modem support is
broken.  I've had to install a 3.2-STABLE partition on my machine so I
can use the modem.

Greg
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