From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 5 23:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [212.84.196.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9278414DDE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from news-list.freebsd.mobile@innominate.de) Received: from mate.bln.innominate.de (gatekeeper.innominate.de [212.5.16.129]) by hermes.mixx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA31924 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:25:28 +0100 Received: by mate.bln.innominate.de (Postfix, from userid 9) id C90C12CA6B; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:18:13 +0100 (CET) From: news-list.freebsd.mobile@innominate.de (Thomas Graichen) Reply-To: Thomas Graichen X-Newsgroups: innominate.bln.list.freebsd.mobile Subject: Re: several qusetions (mostly -current) Date: 6 Jan 2000 07:18:12 GMT Organization: innominate AG, Berlin, Germany Lines: 275 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: graichen@innominate.de X-Trace: mate.bln.innominate.de 947143092 21053 192.168.0.213 (6 Jan 2000 07:18:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@innominate.de User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990805 ("Preacher Man") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.3-RELEASE (i386)) To: mobile@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ok - i got a lot of those problems solved so far - see below if you are interested in the details - first a big thanks to warner for all his great work (and also to the pao people) - so far i think i have -current useable now still open are the following three questions: * does anbody know something about the sound on this machine - it has a neomagig 256av chip on it which does as far as i found out also does the sound - even the soundblaster plus emulation a 0x220 works (but is only 8 bit) - all my tries to find somekind of wss emulation failed so far - also oss did not work due to irq problems - so anyone here have any other ideas to get it working ? * is there any way to get the touchpad working in the "touching on the pad means press left button" mode - currently only the button itself is useable as button ? - i tried to add "flags 0x800" to the psm driver which should give bit 11 set like in the psm man page described but it did not help * is there anything new known about the state of usb floppy support ? a lot of thanks in advance - folling now the problems i have so far solved and the solutions ... t Thomas Graichen wrote: > hello > i am currently in the process of getting FreeBSD running on my > sony vaio n505x (i think this is the european version of their > subnotebooks) - even have it so far roughly working but some > things are still open or not perfect ... > first part: 3.3-RELEASE + PAO > ok - i have it working so far - also the pcmcia cards i need > seem to work so far (a 3com 3C589, an elsa 56k modem and the > pcmcia cdrom which comes with the notebook) but some problems > are still here - for instance the 3com card works perfect if > it is inside then the machine boots - also remove and re- > insertation works (including the beep :-) - but only if booted > with the card inside gives useable transfer rates: > graichen@battus ~ % ping 10.0.0.13 > (10.0.0.13 is the notebook - battus a desktop machine) > PING 10.0.0.13 (10.0.0.13): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.524 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.501 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.493 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.471 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.492 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.492 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.486 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.471 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.486 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.492 ms > (now the card is being removed and reinserted) > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=944.055 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=1933.947 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=924.011 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=1913.701 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=903.768 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=1893.612 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=27 ttl=255 time=883.693 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=1873.410 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=863.496 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=1853.307 ms > 64 bytes from 10.0.0.13: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=843.337 ms > ^C > --- 10.0.0.13 ping statistics --- > 33 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 36% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.471/706.440/1933.947/763.824 ms > graichen@battus ~ % > does anyone here have an idea what happens here ? (btw. i am > using the bnc port of the card) ... also i had some problems ok that was an irq problem - somehow the irq used (3) ist also used by the graphics board - so if i force the card to use irq 15 everything is fine > with pcmcia modems - the first which came with the notebook > (platinum card mc221 discovery v.90) did not work at all > (i am not even getting anything useful from pccardc dumpcis - > only tuple #1 with code = 0xff Terminator) ... the second > (a dlink one) did give useful dumpcis results but i never got > it to attach cleanly - so i tried the one i have now - an > elsa pcmcia modem which works fine so far ... also this one is solved - from warners description so far in a posting of the last days this seems to be a cardbus card which is so far not supportet yet > part two: 4.0-current > after reading the mobile list for a while now i also updated to > -current (because it looks like things start to work here too :-) > but did not get anywhere usable now - card insertations/removals > are not discovered but a card in the slot on bootup is discovered > correctly (but does not work) - later after killing the pccardd > and restarting it the card is not found because the string is now > "" ("") ... so now my question is: i am doing anything wrong here ? > or is there still a lot of work to be done (but reading the list > it looks good i think - i only need network connection and a modem > _somehow_ working) ... ok some more words about the current > situations (always with cards inside while booting - so that they > are discovered) > * 3com 3C589: gets discovered - but i am not getting any ping or > something like working > * elsa modem card: gets discovered - but after connecting to the > modem via "cu" (which is possible) AT commands are very slow > and soon i get silo overflows those two are working now after explicitely specifying the irq and port the pcic device (its an ricoh 475 pci one - which seems to be supported in isa compatibelity mode as far as i understand it - be- fore i tried to use it as native pci device which endet up in no correctly assigned interrupt and thus the "polling" message on boot- up) - now it is working fine and discovers both modem and 3com card and they are working > * pcmcia cdrom: does not work so far (but i'll try the patches > posted here soon - maybe this helps) will try that with the diffs posted here soon > so my question here is: am i doing anything wrong - any similar > experiences ? ... > ok - and now the info's and before them the usual > a lot of thanks in advance > t > boot output: > Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Dec 26 16:11:34 GMT 1999 > root@cotta.at.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/COTTA > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Pentium II/Celeron (331.58-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x66a Stepping = 10 > Features=0x183f9ff > real memory = 134152192 (131008K bytes) > avail memory = 127098880 (124120K bytes) > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc028d000. > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > apm0: on motherboard > apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > ata-pci0: at device 7.1 on pci0 > ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA supported > ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0 > uhci0: irq 9 at device 7.2 on pci0 > usb0: on uhci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > chip1: at device 7.3 on pci0 > pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x104d, dev=0x8039) at 8.0 irq 9 > pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1073, dev=0x0010) at 9.0 irq 9 > vga-pci0: irq 3 at device 10.0 on pci0 > pcic-pci0: at device 12.0 on pci0 > pcic: polling, can't alloc 0 <-------- XXX what does this mean ? XXX > pcic0: on isa0 > pccard0: on pcic0 > vga0: at port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > sc0: on isa0 > sc0: VGA <12 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> > atkbdc0: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 > atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 > psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0 > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > ppc0 at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > lpt0: on ppbus 0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > ppi0: on ppbus 0 > ad0: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as master > ad0: 6194MB (12685680 sectors), 13424 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > ad0: 16 secs/int, 1 depth queue, UDMA33 > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > pccard: card inserted, slot 0 > ep0: <3Com Etherlink III 3C589> at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 0 on pccard0 > ep0: Ethernet address 00:10:5a:92:40:ef > kernel config: > # > # COTTA - config(8) file for cotta > # > machine i386 > cpu I686_CPU > ident COTTA > maxusers 64 > options INET > options FFS > options FFS_ROOT > options SOFTUPDATES > options COMPAT_43 > options KTRACE > options SYSVSHM > options SYSVSEM > options SYSVMSG > options DDB > options USERCONFIG > options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE > options UCONSOLE > options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=2048 > options MAXCONS=12 > options ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP > makeoptions ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=german.iso > makeoptions DEBUG=-g > controller isa0 > controller card0 > device pcic0 at isa? > device apm0 at nexus? flags 0x20 > device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 > device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts > device sc0 at isa? > controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD > device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 > device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" irq 4 flags 0x10 > controller ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 irq 7 > controller ppbus0 > device lpt0 > device ppi0 > controller vpo0 > controller scbus0 > device da0 > controller ata0 > device atadisk0 > device atapicd0 > device ep0 > controller pci0 > controller uhci0 > controller usb0 > device ugen0 > device uhid0 > device ukbd0 > device ulpt0 > device ums0 > device umass0 > pseudo-device loop > pseudo-device ether > pseudo-device bpf 16 > pseudo-device pty 64 -- graichen@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message