[967] in NetBSD-Development
frobnizt rebooting problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 23 23:07:38 1995
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:07:34 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: pc-dialup@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-afs@MIT.EDU
frobnitz will probably start rebooting correctly if we get the
ethernet controller off of IRQ 3 (which is also the IRQ used by the
first serial port). As evidence for this, the machine will reboot
properly if you don't configure the ethernet interface, but will not
reboot if you do. Unfortunately, IRQ 3 is assigned by the PCI BIOS,
and the CMOS configuration does not have a way of changing the IRQ
associated with PCI slots, only a way of enabling or disabling
devices. We can't try a different PCI slot because the ethernet
controller is on the motherboard (i.e. it's not a PCI card).
I think we need to phone ZEOS and ask about this problem; I think we
have a flash BIOS, so a BIOS upgrade might do it.
(I'm really not impressed with ZEOS now.)
