Hi Folks,
First of all, i would like to congratulate all the openbsd developers,
because it's a very good OS. I'm a newcomer, from the Linux world,
precisely slackware. I haven't found much problem adapting myself to
OpenBSD, thankful to the excelent man pages, FAQ's, HOWTO's and mailing
list archives, like this.
Now, to the problem:
I'm building a firewall solution to my home network on top of OpenBSD.
The machine that i'm using is a very old Pentium 133Mhz, with only 40MB
of RAM (EDO), 4 PCI ports and 5 ISA ports. I do have my VGA card (a
trident TGUI) on one PCI, and a Realtek 8139 os other PCI port. The
problem that i'm having is that i managed to install openbsd correctly,
and it detects my ethernet card correctly, but it can initializate the
device. As i don't have network, i can't put a full dmesg here, but it
is something like this that shows to me:
rl0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX no interrupt for pin A
: couldn't map interrupt
The rl(4) man page only says that it is "A fatal initialization error
has occurred". I did some homework and found some guys saying to
deactivate plug and play (my BIOS don't have this, instead i deactivated
auto irq mappings), other guys saying to deactivate the serial ports.
I've done these both, with no success. I've even replaced the card for
one that i was sure that was working, with no success. If any of you
gurus have some hint for this, i would be vary glad. Perhaps, deactivate
the automatic detection, and passing some arguments to the kernel. I
don't know. A, by the way, my BIOS only let me to assign IRQ's 14 or 15
to the PCI port where the Realtek is. 14 is currently used for my IDE
controller. I know that the ethernet card can share the same IRQ with
the IDE controller, but i don't know if the other way arround is true.
And if i force some IRQ, my machine doesn't even pass the BIOS checks,
and freezes.
Thanks in advance,
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Giancarlo Razzolini
Linux User 172199
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