Bug 20908

Summary: [sysinstall] /stand/sysinstall too limited in selection of PCMCIA interrupts; install can fail
Product: Base System Reporter: brett <brett>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description brett 2000-08-29 00:10:03 UTC 
When installing on a system with PCMCIA card slots, /stand/sysinstall
may offer no viable choices of IRQs for the card slots, leaving the
user with no way to activate cards. For example, on a machine where 
IRQ's 5, 10, 11 are committed, none of the options presented by
/stand/sysinstall allows the user to select an unused IRQ for a
card slot. (On the machine where I saw this problem, IRQ 9 was 
free.) While it is possible to hunt for uncommitted IRQs and
move other devices to them, this is beyond the technical ken
of most users. /stand/sysinstall should offer a wider choice of
IRQs for the PCMCIA card slots, and should indicate which ones are
free.

How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install via a PCMCIA Ethernet adapter on a laptop on
which IRQs 5, 10, and 11 are committed to other hardware. This
situation can be forced on systems where it does not normally
occur by manipulating the kernel configuration at boot time.
Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-08-29 09:55:24 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

Over to maintainer.
Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-30 23:52:38 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: murray->eric

Eric is working on the installer right now.  Patches would really help get this resolved faster. ;)  Sounds like a bug we definitely need to fix.
Comment 3 Eric Melville freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-10-01 20:02:56 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: eric->freebsd-qa

assign idle sysinstall bugs to freebsd-qa, as suggested by murray
Comment 4 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-08-25 03:16:11 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-qa->qa

Use short names for mailing list to make searches    
using the web query form work with the shown responsible. 

This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail.
Comment 5 Matteo Riondato freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-02-04 17:46:23 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Kernel configuration menu is long gone