Thanks for the clue, Tony.

There wasn't a BIOS entry to control the USB port, that I could find.

What there was, however, was a mysterious entry that said OS Type.
It was set to Windows98/NT, and had legal values of that, Windows95, and Other.

"Other" did the trick.

I wonder what magic that did?

It still boots Windows98 just fine.

-Rich

> I would disable the USB  chip in the BIOS if its not being used .
> 
> that should solve your problem ....
> netbsd for some reason does not like IRQ conflicts at all . Inside it probably
> yelling  ' I cant work in these conditions ! '
> 
> cheers
> 
> Tony Hernandez
> 
> 
> Richard Pennington wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to install 1.4 on an HP Pavilion 4455, a nice little cheap
> > system. I am using a D-Link network card with the Rhine VT3043 controller.
> >
> > I have a similar setup on my generic PII333 system and it works fine.
> >
> > The dmesg output on the HP system has lines which indicate that the driver
> > for the USB controller (Intel 82371AB) and the ethernet card (vr0) can't map
> > the I/O space.
> >
> > The only wierd thing about the HP as far as I can tell is its sound/modem card
> > containing some kind of Rockwell chips that aren't recognized by the GENERIC
> > kernel.
> >
> > Short of pulling out the sound card, which I'd rather not do since this
> > has to be a dual boot system, does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > --
> > Richard Pennington              Introl Corporation, Milwaukee, WI USA
> > Email: rich@introl.com          Phone: +1 414-273-6100  Fax: +1 414-273-6106
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> > and 68XXX:                      http://www.introl.com   ftp://ftp.introl.com
> 

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Richard Pennington		Introl Corporation, Milwaukee, WI USA
Email: rich@introl.com		Phone: +1 414-273-6100	Fax: +1 414-273-6106
				US and Canada: 1 800-327-7171
Cross development tools for the 68HC05, 68HC08, 6809, 68HC11, 68HC12, 68HC16,
and 68XXX:			http://www.introl.com	ftp://ftp.introl.com