Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:34:40 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: FreeBSD mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The dreaded ed1 device timeout Message-ID: <20000802123440.G16988@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <y9lr9882gjf.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>; from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:50:12AM %2B0200 References: <y9lr9882gjf.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] stated: : : I know it's been the subject of discussion a zillion times: : : I have a D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA Ethernet card in an ASUS P6300. It : works fine with 3.4PAO, and now I'd like to upgrade, installing over : the network. : : 4.1 recognizes the card and probes it as ed1 at IRQ 11 (and only at : that IRQ -- 5 and 10 won't do it). However, irq 11 is also taken by : pcic0, and I get a device timeout. (The archived mails I've found on : the subject recommend re-configuring pccardd on a *working system*. I : don't have one yet.) : : The working PAO installation, puts the card at IRQ 9. Can I get : sysinstall from the official boot disks to pass -i 9 to pccardd or do : something else to remedy the problem? : : Failing that, I could do a CD-ROM install and post-install-configure : pccardd. How sure can I be things will work then? I'd hate to lose : my working 3.4PAO installation only to find out 4.1 can't drive the : card. Michael- There are some issues with the way both if_ed and pcic are dfined in the GENERIC kernel which may be causing this problem, combined with the fact that sysinstall doesn't allow for a sufficient number of IRQ options.... Is IRQ 10 free? You might be able to use the Command line configuration boot option to change the irq of pcic0 to irq 9 and then have 10 free??? This may get you past the installation. There may be an additional hurdle in that if_ed is defined as device ed0 at isa? irq ... Thus, it attaches it as ed1. For pccard support, you really want this to be device ed with no "at isa ...". You might try tweaking the settings in userconfig to disable it, but I am not sure if that will work or not. The alternative is to create a customized 4.1 kernel, gzip it, mount the boot floppy and copy that onto the diskette version. If you go that route, change GENERIC so that 1) pcic support is simply device card device pcic0 at isa? this puts the pcic in polling mode ... fine for install and will free up an irq 2) if_ed device ed Hope this helps, S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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