Date: 05 Aug 2002 11:26:43 +1000 From: Mark Sergeant <msergeant@looksmart.net> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Ben Hockenhull <benh@jpj.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MWave modem on Vaio R505EC? Message-ID: <1028510803.1762.4.camel@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20020805004607.81F435D03@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020805004607.81F435D03@ptavv.es.net>
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Just out of interest I tried this on my toshiba portege 4000 and get the same error, one day when I get around to rebooting I might have a fiddle. Cheers, Mark On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 10:46, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I have a Vaio R505EC and I'm trying to get the built-in mwave modem to > > work with the mwave loadable module port. The port claims to be for th= e > > Thinkpads in particular, but I suppose it should work with any mwave > > modem. >=20 > > When the module is loaded, dmesg tells me this: > >=20 > > mwave0: <mwave> on isa0 > > smapi::smapi_init, ERROR invalid usSmapiID > > tp3780i::Initialize SMAPI is not available on this machine > > Mwave Modem, ERROR cannot Initialize DSP error 5 > > device_probe_and_attach: mwave0 attach returned 5 > > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 >=20 > Any ideas? > Ben, >=20 > Wow! I never realized that Sony (or anybody other than IBM) used that > DSP.=20 >=20 > This looks like a BIOS problem. The BIOS must be configured to have > the DSP and the serial device configured. On the IBM, this means that > the internal modem requires that two IRQs (normally 3 and 10) be > assigned in BIOS. The first is the DSP, normally at 10, and the second > is the aerial pseudo-device, normally 3. The mWave driver attempts to > get the IRQ values from BIOS, so other values can probably be used, > but they MUST be assigned in BIOS as that s the only way the deriver > can find them. There is no mechanism to specify them. >=20 > Make sure that you are not using either IRQ for some other device in > either FreeBSD or in BIOS. >=20 > Let me know if you can get it to work. >=20 > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 Mark Sergeant Senior Unix Systems Administrator =20 L=F4=F4kSmart International Pty. Ltd. Level 5/388 Lonsdale Street Melbourne, VIC, 3000 Australia=20 P. (03) 9648 2201=20 F. (03) 9648 2244=20 http://www.looksmart.com.au This email may contain information which is confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or otherwise use the information contained in this email and we request that you delete it from your system and notify the sender and/or LookSmart International Pty Ltd immediately. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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