Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:52:25 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Psion Gold Card modem on Inspiron 7500 Message-ID: <200211182252.25112.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu>
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The short form of my question is "how do I configure FreeBSD 4.7 stable from a few days ago so my Psion Gold Card modem will once again work with my Inspiron 7500?" It's a common enough combination that I expect someone will have it already. The longer version is that I used to have no problem using the modem with FreeBSD. I upgraded to 4.7 stable a few weeks ago so I could use BSD-Airtools, and I thought everything was great until I went on a trip and tried to use my modem. When it tried to dial it locked up the system to the point that I had to power down to recover. I loaned my spare modem to someone so I don't know if the problem is specific to this modem or is more general. I looked at dmesg and found that the modem was being assigned IRQ 11. I looked at the dumpcis output and found that the modem doesn't support IRQ 11. After a lot of reading, I added hw.pcic.intr_path=1 and hw.pcic.irq=0 to /boot/loader.conf so I was back to something like the old pccard behavior. Rebooted the system and found that now the modem was being assigned IRQ 3, which is an available IRQ on the system, and one the modem supports. Success! Except that the modem still didn't work. Still locks up the system. Works fine when I boot Windows 98. With ISA interrupts, the wireless card driver (wi) goes bananas when I insert the modem (i.e. both cards in the system): watchdog timeout messages, and a system so unresponsive that it is barely possible to get it to reboot.. With PCI interrupts wi is less annoyed by having another card in the system. Either way the modem doesn't seem to talk to the system, although there is some indication that communication is happening because it locks up the system if I try to get it to dial. I've used the term mode of ppp, and tip, in an effort to talk to the modem. Have I missed something, or is the pccard system in an unstable state right now? I've updated the system three times in the past ten days hoping to improve things (the last one was Saturday night). Thanks, - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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