Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:42:10 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Mike Kephart <mkephart@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reboot hangs and pccard change questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903041137350.1622-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <36DEA89D.8935C537@baynetworks.com>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Mike Kephart wrote: > Hi, > > I have two problems which have shown up after upgrading from > 3.0-RELEASE to > 3.1-STABLE (as of 2/3/99 at 18:00 CST). The hardware being used here is > a > Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > 1. The "reboot" command now hangs - on this laptop this is > especially > irritating since the power button is ineffective. Halt still works > fine. > [ I swear I saw this same problem posted recently, but could not find > it in the archives... ] THAT WAS ME! Yes, I have the same problem on the same laptop. You might want to send this stuff to freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG along with freebsd-questions, that's for laptop stuff. I'm going to take out apm from the kernel, then pccard stuff, and keep reducing to see if I can find the problem. BTW, has anything changed in the reboot command that might cause a hang after rebooting... > > 2. I'm using the Xircom if_xe 1.14 beta pccard driver from Scott > Mitchell. Under > 3.1-STABLE, the driver never gets initialized - the driver name doesn't > show up in the "Initializing PC-CARD drivers:" message from > pccard_configure(). > I was guessing this may have something to do with the return value from > the driver's probe() routine (if_xe always returns 0), but random > attempts > at changing this value induced panics. > > I'm hoping someone more familiar with the pccard code might have some > suggestions. > > Thanks, > \MikeK > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make <patseal@hyperhost.net> | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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