From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 9 12:18:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wilson.acpub.duke.edu (wilson.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD38A37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:18:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu [152.16.67.15]) by wilson.acpub.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA06515; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:18:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA9KIW748955; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:18:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sto) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:18:32 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Qing Cc: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: pcmcia nic problem Message-ID: <20001109151832.M48288@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Connell , Qing , FreeBSD mobile References: <200011092003.MAA07046@webmail.speakeasy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011092003.MAA07046@webmail.speakeasy.net>; from qingli@speakeasy.net on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:03:00PM -0800 X-Organization: House of Schmutzli X-Kitties: Bitty Maya CJ Keisha Jacob Hopey X-Hound: Bob X-OS-of-Choice: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Qing stated: : : Please help .... : : I have a 3COM 3c589 pcmcia network adapter. : The adapter is operational. : : On both 4.1.1-STABLE and 4.2-BETA the : adapter is initialized and output from both : "ifconfig" and "netstat" appears okay. : : But I cannot ping any host on my network. : The error message I get on 4.2-BETA is: : ===>> ping: sendto: host is down : On 4.1.1-STABLE "ping" will not return for : a long time. The host MAC address appears in : the route table though. The time is huge when : "ping" returns finally after 3-5 mins. : : Any ideas on what might be the cause?? : ep0: flags=a843 mtu 1500 : inet 192.103.54.235 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.103.54.255 : inet6 fe80::260:97ff:fe48:e9b5%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb : ether 00:60:97:48:e9:b5 : media: 10baseT/UTP : supported media: 10base2/BNC 10baseT/UTP 10base5/AUI : pcic0: at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 irq 10 on isa0 : pcic0: management irq 10 : pccard0: on pcic0 : pccard1: on pcic0 : ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 : ep0: Ethernet address 00:60:97:48:e9:b5 Qing- This sounds like a classic irq conflict problem. There is probably a device using irq 3 on the laptop that freebsd is unaware of. Based on your dmesg output, I would suspect that you have a winmodem pci0: (vendor=0x123f, dev=0x8888) at 13.0 irq 11 eisa0: on motherboard eisa0: unknown card @@@0000 (0x00000000) at slot 1 that is using irq 3. The way to fix this is to either: 1) put the pcic in polling mode and use irq 10 for 3Com Nic - change pcic entry in your kernel to just device pcic0 at isa? - add an /etc/pccard.conf with one line to force using irq 10 for your pccard irq 10 OR 2) try using irq 9 for the 3Com nic - add an /etc/pccard.conf with one line to force using irq 9 for your pccard irq 9 OR 3) disable the onboard serial card in the bios and use irq 4 for the 3com card - add an /etc/pccard.conf with one line to force using irq 4 for your pccard irq 4 Actually I would recommend using a combination or 1 and 2 such that you put the pcic in polling mode and use both 9 and 10 for your pccards ... this would be useful if you ever want to have more than one pccard in at a time (say an adaptec scsi card or a modem, etc). HTH, S -- 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message