USB/NE2000 IRQ conflict?

[FBSD_User]

The ne2000 nic has setup utility that you run from ms/dos that you
can set the nic's irq with. If you did not get one in the box the
Nic came in them check out the MFG website.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gary Aitken
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:18 PM
To: freebsdQ at circusstreet.freeserve.co.uk
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: USB/NE2000 IRQ conflict?

I have a similar problem, so I'll wait before posting to see what
suggestions others have for solutions to yours.
.
I've managed to hack my way around my problem by freeing up some low
irqs -- disabling one of the com ports (irq 3) and the parallel port
in
the bios, and taking them out of my system configuration in a custom
kernel.  I'm not sure I needed to get rid of the parallel port, but
I'm
not using it anyway.  It's a real hack, but doing so allowed my two
NE2000 cards to be placed at irq 3 and 5, and then everything
worked.

Gary Aitken

freebsdQ at circusstreet.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

>I have an old motherboard (with AMIBios 2.5) which doesn't have any
USB
>slots, so I bought a generic USB OHCI controller to use. Problem
is,
>both it and my Realtek 8029 network card have been assigned irq 12
and
>now I am getting "ed0: device timeout" messages. I am running
>4.3-RELEASE.
>It seems to spot both cards on bootup and ifconfig looks normal
(haven't
>looked at the USB setup yet because I want to get the network back
>first)
>
>If I remove the USB card, I can use the network fine.
>
>I can't seem to force the BIOS to assign an interrupt to each
slot/card
>and nothing I have tried in the kernel configuration seems to have
>helped either. I would appreciate any help before I give up and try
my
>ISA network card instead.
>
>thanks
>Matt Proctor
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