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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:58:10 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com>
To:        Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3Com 3CCFE574BT works.
Message-ID:  <20000118105810.A45085@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001180213.KAA02221@netrinsics.com>; from Michael Robinson on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:13:01AM %2B0800
References:  <200001180213.KAA02221@netrinsics.com>

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Well, I was finally able to get my laptop installed.  What I did to make
it work was to use the system configuration to disable all devices that
I don't have (may not have been necessary), Assign IRQ 3 to the pic0 (it
was 10), then select the option (Option 1, I believe) from the pccard
IRQ dialog box that assigned IRQ 10 to my ethernet card.  With that the
network performance was where I expected it to be :-)

I don't know if this is an "official" way to do it, but I noticed
that install included the IRQ specification as flags to pccardd in
/etc/rc.conf. i.e., it created the line:

pccardd_flags="-i 10 -i 5"

in the file.  Seems this is how it sets the IRQ(s) to use.  Note that
after installation my system properly booted and configured my ethernet
card. :-)

Thanks,
Bob

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:13:01AM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com> writes:
> >No, unfortunately the userconfig does not offer any way (that I could
> >discover) to set the IRQ to be used by a pccard.
> 
> The official way to assign an IRQ to a pccard (under -STABLE at least) is
> to hard-code the imask in pccard_alloc_intr() in sys/pccard/pccard.c,
> rebuild your kernel, and reboot.
> 
> For example, to get my 3C589C to use IRQ 9 (the only one it will accept), 
> I added the following line:
> 
>     imask |= 1ul << 9;
> 
> If you need to install using a pccard, you might have to build the kernel on
> another machine, and make a new boot floppy.
> 
> 	-Michael Robinson
> 
> 
> 
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Bob Willcox                 Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good.
bob@pmr.com                 I know better. The things I worry about don't
Austin, TX                  happen.          -- Watchman Examiner


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