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

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