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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:58:58 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Will 3Com 3CCFE574BT work in 4.0 Release?
Message-ID:  <20000126095858.A413@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <87wvoxniug.fsf@miranda.arachsys.com>; from chris@arachsys.com on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:00:23PM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0001221359140.13833-100000@echonyc.com> <200001230347.UAA27217@harmony.village.org> <87wvoxniug.fsf@miranda.arachsys.com>

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:00:23PM +0000, Chris Webb wrote:
> I read this thread earlier in the week with a nagging memory of a friend
> complaining about this card, so last night I tried it out with
> yesterday's -current snapshot on a as-yet unused Vaio N505X. I'm seeing
> some `interesting' behaviour, although I don't know enough about the
> pccard stuff to pin it on anything in particular.

I do. The underlying problem here is that the pccard model does not provide
any way for pccardd (userland) to access the current IRQ usage (kernel). So
pccardd depends on you to give it an IRQ that will work. Your problem is
probably caused by the fact that in the GENERIC kernel (and others), pcic1
likes to use IRQ 11.

Even if you disable some IRQs, it seems that it is still used up in the
kernel. So you have to pick an IRQ that is definitely not used for anything
at all. For me, on my Dell Inspiron 7000, IRQ 9 works best for the
3CCFE574BT. Be sure to test all the IRQs until you get one that works for
you.

>   # ping 192.168.64.3
>   PING 192.168.64.3 (192.168.64.3): 56 data bytes
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=911.308 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=1901.416 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=891.487 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=1881.523 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=871.616 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=1861.925 ms
>   64 bytes from 192.168.64.3: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=851.989 ms
>   [...]

Classic IRQ conflict symptom.

> in this machine, nor another available laptop in which to test the 374B.

You do mean the 574B, right?

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