Install Trouble

[Chris Pressey]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:22 -0400
Tim Hawes <thawes at althusius.net> wrote:

> OK,
> 
> I disabled the serial ports and the install went fine. I did not need
> to disable plug and play. I am now having difficulty getting the
> ethernet card working
> 
> It seems to detect that I have a RealTek 8139  card (which is
> correct). Here is what dmesg returns:
> 
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xec00-0xecff mem
> 0xd3001000-0xd30010ff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0
> rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in
> autoselect mode
> rl0: couldn't map interrupt
> device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6
> 
> I also noticed this just before the ethernet card:
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 2.7 (no driver attached)
> sio0: <SmartLink 5634PCV SurfRider> port 0xe800-0xe807 irq 11 at
> device 7.0 on pci0
> sio0: moving to sio4
> sio4: type 16550A
> 
> So, I guess FreeBSD does not do plug and play, and what I have is an
> irq conflict?

Looks like that, yes.

It seems odd that it would detect sio0 when the serial ports are
disabled in the BIOS.  Did you re-enable them after install?

Beyond that - I'm kind of out of my league.  If your BIOS lets you
change the IRQ for the serial port, you could try that.  But someone
more experienced with this could probably give you a better solution.

-Chris