Subject: Re: mr radio 'can't map io space'
To: George Sollish <gsollish@autogear.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/14/2002 15:29:05
The "ca't map i/o space" is usually a sign that the BIOS has not allocated
resources for the card.  You might be able to get around this using the
pcibios(4) features.

    -- Lennart

George Sollish wrote:

>Can't imagine this is anyone's high priority, but has anyone had any luck
>with the mr driver for the Guillemot Maxiradio PCI FM radio card?  Now
>that the driver compiles into 1.6rc1, the card probes and identifies
>itself "mr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: Guillemot MAXIRADIO (rev. 0x01)"
>but prints ": can't map i/o space" on the following line and, of course,
>does not open /dev/radio.  I tried this on two boxes, one single and the
>other double processor Pentium III, with the same kernel and the same
>result.
>
>I did a bit of research (I'm no programmer, so I can't do much more) and
>discovered that OpenBSD has recently trashed the mr driver and replaced it
>with a gtp driver saying something along the lines that the old mr driver
>was never tested and the new gtp one might actually work.  Can the OpenBSD
>driver be imported into 1.6?
>
>Thanks.
>
>George E Sollish	Chief Engineer		Auto Gear Equipment
>			Project Manager		The Payne Lake Project
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