From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 5:49:56 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 05:49:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kumquat.mail.uk.easynet.net (kumquat.mail.uk.easynet.net [195.40.1.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3104437B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:49:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from magrat.office.easynet.net ([195.40.3.130]) by kumquat.mail.uk.easynet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1441Qm-000CJJ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:49:52 +0000 Received: by magrat.office.easynet.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:48:39 -0000 Message-ID: From: Paul Crossley To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: PCCARD support - Ricoh RL5C478 - Sony Vaio F809 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:48:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed the 4.1 stable release on my Sony Vaio - no trouble with the screen up to 1024x768 but that's not the issue. I cannot get the PCCards to work. (I've trawled the postings and discovered one other user claiming to have the RICOH RL5c478 working but that was with a 3.5.1release + PAO3-2000102 but I believe that PAO has been rolled into 4.1.) I've tried booting from a 3.5.1 pccard installation floppy but with no success and from a 4.2 installation floppy - neither pick up my Xircom Realport 10/100 card (16 bit) although the source code for the XE driver indicates that this should be fine. So what are the symptoms ? The pccardd detects cards being inserted and removed but comes up with 'no card in database for "(null)"("(null)") '. Thinking that this just needed tweaking the card recognition program I started looking at the "readcis.c" file to see if I could implement a kludge. However, not wanting to go to the effort if my diagnosis was wrong I decided to try a different card first. I therefore tried an ancient Adaptec Slimscsi (1460a) card that is listed in the /etc/defaults/pccard.conf file but got the same 'no card in database ...' response. So as a test I tried this insert Xircom RE100 card pccardc dumpcis >xxx swap Xircom card for Adaptec slimscsi 1460a pccardc dumpcis >yyy cmp xxx yyy the result - the cis dumps are the same despite the different cards. I even tried the same thing with a reboot in-between but got the same result. I guess this means that communication with the cards is broken as the CIS is not being read properly which is a shame given that mandrake Linux on the same machine is fine. dmesg shows : ... pcic-pci0: at device 12.0 on pci0 pcic-pci1: at device 12.1 on pci0 ... pcic0 : at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd000 irq 10 on isa0 pcic0 : management irq 10 pccard0: on pcic0 pccard1: on pcic0 ... has anyone any suggestion as to what I can do (apart from give up :-) ). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message