Disabling uhci at boot-time

2003-02-20 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hello,

	I've been tasked with putting FreeBSD on a laptop at work. The problem 
I'm having is this: The USB controller is setting up as IRQ 10, while 
another piece of hardware is hard-coded to that IRQ. Hence, the kernel 
panics on a page-fault at boot time, meaning I can't even start the install.

	The laptop is a Eurocom 3100b and its BIOS doesn't have a setting to 
shut off the USB stuff. (I upgraded the BIOS just to see if that would 
help. It didn't.) I tried to disable USB in the kernel config utility, 
only to discover that to the kernel config utility uhci doesn't exist.

	So what I'm asking is this: is there any way around this problem, or do 
I inform my boss that he's asking the impossible?

	Please cc me on any replies.

Thanks in advance,
Dwayne MacKinnon


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Re: Disabling uhci at boot-time

2003-02-20 Thread kitsune 
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:14:56 -0500
Dwayne MacKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello,
 
   I've been tasked with putting FreeBSD on a laptop at work. The problem 
 I'm having is this: The USB controller is setting up as IRQ 10, while 
 another piece of hardware is hard-coded to that IRQ. Hence, the kernel 
 panics on a page-fault at boot time, meaning I can't even start the install.
 
   The laptop is a Eurocom 3100b and its BIOS doesn't have a setting to 
 shut off the USB stuff. (I upgraded the BIOS just to see if that would 
 help. It didn't.) I tried to disable USB in the kernel config utility, 
 only to discover that to the kernel config utility uhci doesn't exist.
 
   So what I'm asking is this: is there any way around this problem, or do 
 I inform my boss that he's asking the impossible?


I don't know if what ye want is possible or not, but the simple solution, yet not 
pretty, I would do is to remove the hhd put it in another box, install freebsd, 
recompile the kernel with out USB.  Then if ye want USB you can just load the kernel.

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