Thinkpad 600e interrupt storm

[Understudy]

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>>> Which ps2 utility did you use and what did you arrange your IRQs to 
>>> be set at.?
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>> The ps2 utility is available at the IBM website. Just search the 
>> downloads for your TP model number. You will need a bootable DOS 
>> partition, floppy or cdrom for this.
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I have downloaded 1yu603us.exe 
<http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/license.do?filename=mobiles/1yu603us.exe> 
which I believe to be the ps2 utility you were talking about.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4ZFPEG

Here is my silly question. How do get this file on a floppy when it is a 
windows .exe?



>>> Are you using a IBM thinkpad 600e or another laptop. If so which 
>>> model?   
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>> Yes, it's a TP600e (model-no. 2645-8A0).
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> Okay I have a 2645-8AU
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>>> If you are using the 600e would please post the following information:
>>> What you set your IRQs at with the PS2 utility?
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>> `ps2 pciirq 10 11'
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>> Disable modem, midi, serial ports, parallel port and audio for testing
>> (use `ps2 ? irq' to list any irq used by the TP and turn anything off
>> that you don't need).
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>> The above setup puts uhci0 and cbb0 on irq 11, and cbb1 on irq 10 for 
>> me. As long as I don't use cbb0, I don't get any interrupt storm 
>> messages and there are no device slowdowns.
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>> I didn't do any further tests to get the other cardbus slot working  
>> without device slowdowns as well. But I'm sure that it is resolvable
>> through further playing with the irq setup.
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>> The important thing here is not to give up testing until you have
>> a working IRQ setup. 
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> So basically you can use only the bottom pcmcia slot. That is fine for 
> me. I don't plan on using the machine as a gateway.
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>>> The results of uname -r
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>> FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #10: Wed Feb  9 17:52:53 CET 2005
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> Okay here is where things begin to differ for me.
> [bhorne at Slacker:bhorne, 05:37 PM, Sat Feb 12]>uname -r
> 5.3-RELEASE
> I think I may need to do a cvsup and make sure I get a stable. I did a 
> iso download. I thought I had grabbed a stable maybe not.
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>>> A copy of your kernel.
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>> GENERIC, with NEWCARD enabled and useless stuff commented out.
>> Watch to load snd_mss, usb and network devices as modules to get 
>> suspend working.
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> Okay things are really different for me here I went with GENERIC with 
> useless stuff commented out and OLDCARD. I think that is all I did. I 
> have not done anything with sound. I am don't think I did anything 
> that would make usb and network items load as modules. They are there 
> in the kernel. I never understood the suspense issue.



I have downloaded RELENG_5 which I believe is 5.x STABLE I am going to 
make world to that in a day or two. I hope this will help.

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>>> A copy of your device.hints.
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>> Default device.hints with acpi enabled, apm disabled.
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> Okay again I went different here. I believe I have acpi disabled and 
> apm enabled. I got all of my information from google searches when I 
> was trying to deal with the interrupt storm.
> You can read my device.hints at 
> http://www.understudy.net/files/devicehints.txt . Take a look and tell 
> me what you would change. I don't even remember what the original 
> untouched one looks like.
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>>> A copy of your dmesg.
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>> I don't think it'd be helpful in any way to post it here.
>> If you really need it, drop me a mail.
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>>> A copy of any customizing you have done to your /usr/src/ files.
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>> I didn't customize anything in the sources that has to do with the 
>> TP600E.
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>>> This seems somewhat encouraging, I hope it can solve my problem with 
>>> the interrupt storm. I get that one solved I will go onto other issues.
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>> As long the message is your only problem with no device slowdowns 
>> coming up, just ignore it.
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Sincerely,
Brendhan