On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 10:30:42AM -0700, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> > > I built my kernel according to the i386 port-specific FAQ, which
> > > basically says to set the modem for IRQ2 and the kernel config for
> > > IRQ9 and everything should just work [see
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#irq2or9]. But it doesn't
> > > work.
> > 
> > Did you mark irq 9 a 'used by isa' in the BIOS ?
> 
> My machine is too old for that (it's a 486, incidentally). I have no
> plug and pray, and there's no way to mark irq's as "used by isa" in my
> BIOS. So I don't think that's the problem. Am I confused?

There's no PCI in this machine ?
Then it's something else. Can you try another irq ?
This could help determine if it's just irq 9 which has a problem.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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