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Date:      Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:43:42 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200008011803.LAA02343@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <Your message of "Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:56:12 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20000729215431.04b6ab40@localhost>

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At 12:03 PM 8/1/2000, Mike Smith wrote:

>Power the machine down before booting FreeBSD.  Windows leaves the pcic in
>CardBus mode.

The machine came with Linux; Windows has never been installed on it.
The install was from a cold boot.

>  Apart from this, all of the pcic's in currently-shipping
>Inspirons are supported, and the inspiron BIOS leaves them in pcic mode at
>power-up (but doesn't reset them when you reboot)

As I mentioned in another message, the problem seems to be allocation of
interrupts. On a machine where IRQ's 5 and 11 are taken by the sound
hardware, and the pcic itself uses IRQ 10, none of the options in
/stand/sysinstall leaves an IRQ available for cards plugged into the
socket. /stand/sysinstall should offer a choice of any two uncommitted
interrupts for the cards.

--Brett



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