Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:04:55 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: Amergin <amergin@wwa.com> Cc: FreeBSD mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Linksys PCM100 Message-ID: <20000923140455.C4081@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10009231052560.9813-100000@wwa.com>; from amergin@wwa.com on Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 10:53:21AM -0400 References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10009231052560.9813-100000@wwa.com>
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Amergin stated: : : Okay, first thanks to those who have already offered their adice. : : On some sound advice I mounted mfsroot on another machine to look at the : pccard.conf and now I am doubly confused. My card, the PCM100, is LISTED. : : #Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Integrated PC Card (PCM100) : card "Linksys" "Etherfast 10/100 Integrated PC Card (PCM100)" : config auto "ed" ? : insert /etc/pccard_ether $device : remove /sbin/ifconfig $device delete : : Okay, then why isn't recognized? : : Here is what happens on install. : : The Linksys card does not have linklight on startup. : : After entering the Visual Kernel config I remove the conflicting network : cards. However all that are listed are: : : IBM EtherJet, CS*9x)-based Ethernet adapters : NE1000, NE2000, 3C503, WD/SMC80xx Ethernet adapters : Fujitsu MD86960A/MD869685A Ethernet adapters : AT&T Starlan 10 and EN100, 3c507, NI5210 Ethernet adapters : DEC Etherworks 2 and 3 Ethernet adapters : Isolan, Novell NE2100/NE32-VL Ethernet adapters : SMC/Megahertz Ethernet adapters : : : After saving the parameters and exiting, the probe finds the pc-card : apparently cause I get linklight then. : : I am told that the PC-card slor is found and wants to know if it wants to : be the installation media. I choose yes. and go through the basic : configuration... : : after then going through basic choices, disk label etc, I choose FTP : Passive as installation media. : : And my options now to use are only SLIP or PPP. : : What is up? AM I missing somehting obvious? I could just cheat and find : some CD's but it is now a matter of pride. I must get this working. I : bought this nic specifically this installtion since my cardbus nics are : not supported. : : Again, this is 4.1 current. : : Thanks again for any leads... Hi- This definitely sounds like an irq issue with your laptop. Of course, not knowing what hardware you are installing on kinda makes that difficult to fathom out. By default the pcic (pccard controller) is run using irq 10 as the interrupt by GENERIC. One trick to free up this irq is to boot the machine in Command line configuration mode and change teh irq associated with pcic0 from 10 to 0 (this will put the pcic in polling mode and free up irq 10 to be used with the nic). This is particualarly pertinent on IBM laptops (where 9 often maybe substituted for 0) and is further caused by sysinstall only allowing a limited # of irq's to be associated wiht the the cards (this was true up until a few days ago in -stable when Jordan MFC'd a change in sysinstall that allows more granularity in hte choice of irqs ... you may want to use a very recent snapshot from releng4 (ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.1-20000923-STABLE) and see if this helps. HTH, S PS. 4.1 is in the -STABLE branch not -CURRENT. -- 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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