[BAT] wi0: init failed -- bad or normal?

Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:23:27 +0100

Thanks for the explanation !!

I've updated the webpage accordingly. 

regards,
Dragon - Kin
(david)

> In message: <>
>             "david" <> writes:
> : On 13 Apr 2002, at 10:36, Jerry Francus wrote:
> : 
> : here is a plug for my website: www.darkminds.net/wlan 
> : 
> : I came across most of the issues possible under freebsd when I 
> : was setting up my box and that website details how I fixed them. I 
> : think the wi0 init failure error is in the hardware configuration page. 
> : Along with numerous other problems. Give it a look and see if it 
> : helps fix your problem.
> 
> >From the web page: 
> 
> >>I tried lots of things but nothing seemed to work so in the end I
> >>just decided that IRQ 9 was not in the default pccard.conf file for
> >>a reason.. Although I have no idea what reason that might be, if you
> >>know please send me an email.
> 
> ISA bus works by driving the interrupt lines low or high.  When an
> interrupt is to be signaled, the card toggles the level that it is
> driving the line to give an edge.  When you have two more more cards
> using the same interrupt, the one with the most powerful line drivers
> wins (or if you aren't lucky, they both lose).  This hardware doesn't
> even need to be configured in the kernel for there to be problems.
> Your machine has some device that was wired to IRQ9 in some way.  This
> device was either a ISA device (which would almost certainly make it
> invisible to FreeBSD if you didn't know about it before hand) or a PCI
> device (because although PCI interrupts are shareable, the interrupt
> controller that bridges to the PIC will be driving these interrupt
> lines so they can't be used, generally, on the ISA bus).
> 
> Warner
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