At 06:48 AM 7/9/98 , arnej@math.ntnu.no wrote:
>A friend of mine has recently acquired a Digital HiNote VP710 MSX5166M
>where we would like to install NetBSD.  We have a PCMCIA network
>card (3com 3c589D) we really need to get to work, but so far no luck.
>I've tried with the NetBSD 1.3.2 installation floppy, but that doesn't
>detect the network card at all.  However, I've built a -current kernel
>with lots of verbosity and it finds the card at least.
>We can ifconfig it, and then get the message "pcmcia1: card irq 5".
>Any use of the network just hangs.  tcpdump'ing from another
>machine the packets do hit the network so it looks like it can't
>receive (maybe it doesn't get its interrupt handled properly).

IRQ 5 is undoubtably fixed for the built in audio.  You will need to
build a kernel that excludes IRQ5 from the set available for
PCMCIA.  (Actually, you should just allow 9, 10, and 11 -- 0x0E00)