Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 00:45:11 +0100 From: Marcin Kot <Marcin.Kot@stud.iu.hio.no> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: IBM Thinkpad X20 and 3com 556B mini pci nic Message-ID: <1016754311.3c9a7087935c0@webmail.hio.no>
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I have a IBM Thinkpad X20, which originally didn't have a network adapter installed. Lately I bought a 3com 556B mini-pci network/modem combo. This is a card which IBM also supplies (supplied?) with the X20. My intent was to devote the computer to FreeBSD only, and the adapter is supported, however this strange problem occured: To get the adapter into a working state, I have to either a) boot windows, and then soft boot (ctrl+alt+del) into FreeBSD, or b) enable the cards "Managed Boot Agent" feature, and wait till it times out during boot. If I follow either of the procedures, the card will show a correct link status, and autonegotiates. If I hard boot straight into FreeBSD, the card is properly detected by the xl driver, resources and IP address are assigned, but the link light doesn't lit up, ifconfig shows "status: no carrier". Somehow the adapter is not properly initialized, no matter what ifconfig parameters I try. I've read about someone experiencing similar problems, though that's in linux: http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2002-February/001667.html No idea if it might be related. I have no idea if this is a recent change in 3coms hardware, or something else. It took some time to receive a new adapter, since it was out of stock. Maybe it's a new revision, but I'm a newbie. I've tried changing resources in BIOS to no use. I do have latest BIOS and embedded controller update installed 2.21/1.33. Marcin Kot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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