From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 21 15:13:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF2337B423; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA27293; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:13:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08135; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:13:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:13:16 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009212213.QAA08135@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems getting WaveLAN device (wi0) working In-Reply-To: <200009212211.PAA02085@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200009212150.PAA07960@nomad.yogotech.com> <200009212211.PAA02085@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > FreeBSD sometimes seems to mis-assign resources > > > > already in use. > > > > > > This is incorrect. > > > > No, this is true. The mobile code sometimes screws up, and attempts to > > re-use an already active resource. > > This doesn't constitute "mis-assigning" a resource, since when pccardd > submits the resource assignment to the kernel, it will be rejected by the > resource manager (and thus the resources are not mis-assigned). > > > And, it's not just the mobile code. > > Often because FreeBSD has no driver for a particular piece of hardware, > > it's unaware of the resources being used by a piece of hardware (a > > CardBus controller, or an unsupported sound card), so it assumes > > (wrongly) that the resources it is using are free, when in fact the > > hardware is still using the resources despite the fact there is no > > driver for them. > > This is also incorrect. > > FreeBSD doesn't "assign" resources for anything at this point in time, > with the dubious exception of pccardd. Umm, last I looked, this was the 'mobile' list, which implies the use of the pccardd, and it's corresponding kernel code. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message