wi0: No Mem space on prism2.5?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Jul 8 08:54:00 PDT 2004


:Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
:> > Not a new problem, but I remembered it now that I'm in a wifi-zone and
:> > it's biting me... (though I still have wired ethernet)
:>
:> Add "options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES" to your kernel config and try again.
:
:This causes the boot to hang, when probing the parallel port; or, if I
:disable the parallel port, after "installed MI handler for int 7"
:and just before either "installed MI handler for int 0" or 
:probing ad0.
:
:> Or get a working BIOS.
:
:Is that an answer?  "Sorry this is too hard to fix" is an answer, but
:other free operating systems seem to handle the BIOS fine.  Anyway,
:I'm not messing with the BIOS and the manufacturer's page does not
:list any relevant-looking BIOS update. 
:
:Rahul
 
    No, that isn't an answer, Joerg should know better :-).

    We might not be able to address this for the release, it
    already being thursday.  Ultimately it is my hope that
    unconditionally programming at least the PCI chipsets
    will solve the BIOS mapping issues.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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