Thus spake Feico Dillema
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 11:40:03AM -0500, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Thus spake Juergen Tritthardt
> > > 	/sbin/ifconfig ep1 inet ... netmask ...
> > > 
> > > switched on the LED of the adaptor and gave me the output
> > > 
> > > 	pcmcia0: card irq 9
> > 
> > I notice that the boot disk that works gives me irq 5 but the kernel I
> > build gives me irq 9.
> 
> In my experience such problems are generally due to an IRQ conflict.
> Does your laptop BIOS have settings to reserve IRQs for non-pnp ISA
> hardware? In that case, my guess is that IRQ 9 (== IRQ 2, BTW) is
> already taken by some piece of builtin hardware without NetBSD knowing

I thought about this but the ThinkPad needs a Windows program to configure
this.  Nevertheless I know that it works because the 19991113 snapshot
boot disk works.

> about it. You could also try to build a kernel with your network card
> hardwired to irq 5 and see whether that helps, but I think you should
> be able to fix this by playing with your BIOS settings.

I changed the irq to 5 but I have the same problem.

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