Ted Unangst wrote: > put it in a different slot. > > On 12/1/05, Giancarlo Razzolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>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, >>-- >>Giancarlo Razzolini >>Linux User 172199 >>Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 >>Slackware Current >>Snike Tecnologia em Informatica >>4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85 >> >> > > First of all i would like to thank everybody that replyed. I tried putting it on a different slot, and i did something more radical. i've installed a slackware linux in the machine, and it gave me the same error. The kernel said to me to try to boot it with the pci=biosirq option. I did it, and i got a big kernel panic. I'm almost losing my hopes. The thing that is most painful is that it had a windows 98 installed on the machine before putting openbsd or the linux. And the realtek was working. I hate PnP. Well, i'll try to erase the bios, but i've already tried using the nic, on every slot. My last option will be to get 2 ISA cards, and try then. Thanks for all you pals. It really helped me a lot. I've only foung this kind of support in the slackware mail lists. I heard that the OpenBSD communty was very good, and now i know why.
My regards, -- Giancarlo Razzolini Linux User 172199 Moleque Sem Conteudo Numero #002 Slackware Current Snike Tecnologia em Informatica 4386 2A6F FFD4 4D5F 5842 6EA0 7ABE BBAB 9C0E 6B85
