From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jul 17 9: 9: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BFB37B5C2 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id LAA20834 for mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:26:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200007171626.LAA20834@aurora.sol.net> Subject: IRQ's, etc... frustrating laptops :-) To: mobile@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:26:03 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok, so I've got a great little Digital HiNote Ultra 2000, a 166 MHz Pentium seat warmer. It has two builtin PCMCIA slots, plus space for two factory- installed PCMCIA devices, an ethernet and a modem... of which this machine only has a WinModem (groan). It also has a serial port, which I need, an IRda port, and a sound system built in. The PCMCIA slots are on pcic1, which wasn't too hard to figure out. I also determined how to put pcic? into polling mode, to save on interrupts. So, anyways, this system was already a bit stressed for IRQ's. 3 is serial, 4 is IRda, 5 is sound card, 7 is lpt, pcic-pci{0,1,2,3} soak up 9 and 10, 11 I use for PCMCIA, 12 is psm, I don't know if it is OK to use 13, 14 is HDD, and 15 is multimedia dock. And now I've this nifty multimedia dock which actually lets me hear the audio :-) but at the same time it introduces additional complexity, as it has two additional PCMCIA slots, a USB port, an additional slot for a floppy or CDROM, etc.. First, where might I find this *THIRD* PCMCIA controller (presumably pcic2) Second, what the hell do people do to have all their stuff work and yet work around the limited number of irq's? Thanks :-) -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message