From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 08:07:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F5B16A4AB for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:07:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vicknesan@bigfoot.com) Received: from mail1.ilik.net (mail1.ilik.net [192.71.20.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3711443D46 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:07:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vicknesan@bigfoot.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.ilik.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.ilik.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D54E2C3560; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:59:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ilik.net Received: from mail1.ilik.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.ilik.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bH4AwFjS6FRG; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:58:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ark (138.206.216.81.static.nvik.siw.siwnet.net [81.216.206.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail1.ilik.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B782C34E5; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:58:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:07:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Vicknesan AYADURAI X-X-Sender: vick@apu To: Stan Barber In-Reply-To: <452F30A4.8040103@academ.com> Message-ID: <20061013095806.R5916@apu> References: <452F30A4.8040103@academ.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD-hardware Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 and Prism-based wireless cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:07:54 -0000 On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Stan Barber wrote: > I just upgraded my Compaq E500 from 5.4 to 6.1. Everything works fine except > the Prism-based wireless card. It worked fine under 5.4. I verified the card > didn't blow up under XP and Linux. I have even tried a different card that > was working fine in the Linux laptop. > > Right now, it looks like it must be something about FreeBSD 6.1 (I have all > the updates to p10 installed as well). > > Here is the error when either Prism-based card gets plugged in: > > wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000: event status 0x8000 > :init failed > device_attach: wi0 attach returned 6 > > By the way, the driver does correctly identify each card from the cis data. Hi Stan, This reminds me of the problem I had with my 3Com Etherlink PCMCIA ethernet card (battle-tested, working solidly since FBSD-2.2.8R) which ceased to work when I went from 5.4R-->6.1R on my Thinkpad. The general problem seems to be the 'magical' IRQ allocation upon card insertion/detection, and subsequently some kind of collision with ACPI. The card was assigned IRQ 9 with 5.4R, but IRQ 10 with 6.1R, which was also used for ACPI-stuff. The trick, which fixed my problem at least, was to force a different IRQ assigment (from 10) for 6.1R. I posted what worked for me at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2006-September/003781.html Hope this helps, vick