Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:58:51 -0700 From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: qa@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: problem with 4.3-RC1 w.r.t. laptops Message-ID: <3AC27ABB.FACBD5AD@home.com>
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Hello all, I tried installing the 4.3-RC1 snapshot that Jordan cut an iso for yesterday on my Dell Latitude CPx J laptop. Everything goes smoothly except for PC card stuff. I have a 3com Megahertz Global GSM & Cellular Modem PC Card (model no. 3CCM756--which doesn't appear to have an entry in pccard.conf). If I have this card in one of the slots while booting the 4.3-RC kernel it wedges solid during boot. Here is an excerpt of the boot messages: pcic0: <VLSI 82C146> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd000 on isa0 pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0 pccard1: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0 <sio entries> ppc0: <blah> plip0: <blah> lpt0: <blah> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 No, this is not much to go on, I know, but I couldn't capture the entire boot messages. Even though this card isn't "supported" it shouldn't wedge the machine, no? If I boot the machine from a 4.2-RELEASE cd or 4.1-RELEASE CD *WITH* the card plugged in, there are no problems. In fact, I had 4.1-RELEASE installed on this laptop last week once I got it. pccardd was able to find this 3com card "no problem" (although I didn't test it, it seemed to bind to sio4 pretty well, so I think it really would be "supported"). So, what major changes have occurred with pccard--configuration changes in GENERIC for pccard? Also, if I boot off the newly installed kernel (OR a custom kernel) and insert the card (while running pccardd) it _wedges_ the machine requiring a cold power off. On the good side, 4.3-RC1 looks pretty solid. I saw no errata in sysinstall worth mentioning. The only thing I would mention was the default sizes it chose for partitions. I have an almost-3Gb partition on which I was installing. Sysinstall chose: / 100Mb swap (2x memory) /var 20Mb /usr 2355Mb when sysinstall is presented a partition that is "sufficiently large," doesn't it make sense to give the usr a /tmp partition? Either way the defaults would still work "reasonably well" for the average Joe. Other than this PC card lockup, things look really really good! -Jr ps: on my custom kernel I'm using just what GENERIC did--using irq 0 for pcic0 along with 0x3d0 and iomem 0xd000. However, a dmesg of the booted kernel shows "pcic0: Polling mode" ... does this make sense? I'm new to pc card stuff so no flames please. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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