In general, this problem is bad enough that I'm thinking that install
kernels ought to automatically exclude "common" IRQ assignments from
consideration -- 3,4,5 & 7 spring to mind immediately. Anyone have
suggestions on what the mask ought to be?

.pm

Matt Thomas writes:
> 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)