From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Mar 21 15:45:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hio.no (mail.hio.no [158.36.161.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E48937B41E for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.hio.no (webmail.hio.no [158.36.78.10]) by mail.hio.no (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2LNjBOv025839 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by webmail.hio.no (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g2LNjBv07006 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100 Received: from 213.142.84.74 ( [213.142.84.74]) as user kotm@imap.iu.hio.no by webmail.hio.no with HTTP; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100 Message-ID: <1016754311.3c9a7087935c0@webmail.hio.no> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100 From: Marcin Kot To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: IBM Thinkpad X20 and 3com 556B mini pci nic MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1-cvs Organization: H=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F8gskolen?= i Oslo, Norway X-Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) X-Originating-IP: 213.142.84.74 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a IBM Thinkpad X20, which originally didn't have a network adapter installed. Lately I bought a 3com 556B mini-pci network/modem combo. This is a card which IBM also supplies (supplied?) with the X20. My intent was to devote the computer to FreeBSD only, and the adapter is supported, however this strange problem occured: To get the adapter into a working state, I have to either a) boot windows, and then soft boot (ctrl+alt+del) into FreeBSD, or b) enable the cards "Managed Boot Agent" feature, and wait till it times out during boot. If I follow either of the procedures, the card will show a correct link status, and autonegotiates. If I hard boot straight into FreeBSD, the card is properly detected by the xl driver, resources and IP address are assigned, but the link light doesn't lit up, ifconfig shows "status: no carrier". Somehow the adapter is not properly initialized, no matter what ifconfig parameters I try. I've read about someone experiencing similar problems, though that's in linux: http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2002-February/001667.html No idea if it might be related. I have no idea if this is a recent change in 3coms hardware, or something else. It took some time to receive a new adapter, since it was out of stock. Maybe it's a new revision, but I'm a newbie. I've tried changing resources in BIOS to no use. I do have latest BIOS and embedded controller update installed 2.21/1.33. Marcin Kot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message