From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 16 22:27:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (unknown [129.94.172.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24B837B400 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0H3fx607180; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:41:59 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:11:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Kintz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN/IEEE Card in Desktop Message-ID: <20010117141159.E7052@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <20010116085951.28692.qmail@nwcst290.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010116085951.28692.qmail@nwcst290.netaddress.usa.net>; from gakintz@usa.net on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:59:51AM +0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 16 January 2001 at 8:59:51 +0000, Greg Kintz wrote: > I have been trying to install a Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE (Orinoco) > pccard in my desktop BSD box. I am using the Lucent ISA-pccard > adapter. I finally got BSD to recognize the PC card adapter. I > recompiled the kernel with a new irq for pcic0 (11 instead of 10) and > did a trial and error routine with the jumpers on the card. > > However, I plugged in the orinoco card, and the computer > recognized it as wi0, but with an error message: > wi0: No irq?! > ... uugate pccardd[48]: driver allocation failed for Lucent > Technologies(WaveLAN/IEEE): Device not configured > I sometimes get a message: wi0: No I/O space!? > > I inserted the orinoco card into the laptop we configured with Free > BSD and got: > wi0: at port 0x240-0x27f irq 3 slot 0 on > pccard0 > wi0: Ethernet address ... > So the card works fine with FreeBSD in a laptop, but it is not working > with the ISA/pccard adapter. > > By default, when pccardd is started at boot, it reads > /etc/pccard.conf.sample. I created a new file, /etc/pccard.conf with > only the general setting at the beginning of the file, and the WaveLAN > settings: > debuglevel 99 > io 0x280-0x360 > irq 3 5 9 > > > I have tried a variety of irq settings and a variety of base addresses, > but I am never able to get past the error. Well, the obvious first step is to find out which IRQs are free. Take a look at the dmesg output and see which are there. You might find that you'll have to run the pcic in polling mode. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message