On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:48:46AM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> A laptop (Sony, don't know the model number) that a friend bought is
> trying to share interrupts between PCI and ISA, and failing.  The ISA
> device is the mouse ; I'm not certain what other device conflicts, but
> I think it's the built-in ethernet device.

dmesg will tell you which irq are used by which devices.

> 
> Is there any way to make NetBSD work on this laptop, or is he stuck
> with linux (which works...)

I assume you're using the GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel. Try playing with the
PCIBIOS_IRQS_HINT options to get the IRQ assigned in a different way

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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