Subject: Re: NetBSD on a Sony Vaio
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/29/1998 16:24:09
I guess 
boot -d
pcic_isa_intr_alloc_mask/w 6800
is too primitive.

Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

> I'd like to thank everyone that helped me with NetBSD on the new Sony
> Vaio.  Once I built a new kernel with PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK set to
> mask out irq 9, the network card started working.
> 
> I also discovered that the Linux PCMCIA code treats the "NinjaATA"
> card as a IDE controller, and that leads me to believe that the 
> wdc PCMCIA attachment in -current will "just work".
> 
> BTW, has anyone thought about making the PCIC_ISA_INTR_ALLOC_MASK
> variable more easily configurable at run time?  (Say, for example,
> from the install floppy? :-/)  That would have really helped me out
> in this case.
> 
> --Ken