From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 18:08:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2D6016A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:08:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zardoz.rd.imagescape.com (zardoz.rd.imagescape.com [66.100.151.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5682B43D49 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:08:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from puna@imagescape.com) Received: from [192.168.0.59] (nikko.rd.imagescape.com [192.168.0.59]) (authenticated bits=0)i6LI8fl6053766; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:08:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from puna@imagescape.com) Message-ID: <40FEB1B2.4010006@imagescape.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:10:58 -0500 From: Puna Tannehill Organization: Imaginary Landscape, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (Windows/20040626) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Puna Tannehill References: <40FAE4C8.12288.1D22C90A@localhost> <40FEAB1B.3010704@imagescape.com> <40FEB15E.8070902@imagescape.com> In-Reply-To: <40FEB15E.8070902@imagescape.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Dan Langille cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear MA401 and 4.x-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:08:45 -0000 Puna Tannehill wrote: > Puna Tannehill wrote: > >> Dan Langille wrote: >> >>> Despite what it says on the hardware release notes and >>> http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops, I can't get a recently >>> acquired Netgear MA401 to appear under ifconfig. >>> >>> FWIW, FreeSBIE panic'd if the Netgear MA401 is inserted when booting. >>> If added after boot, all is well. FWIW, I found a similar problem >>> with the cards provided by USENIX in Boston. >>> >>> Should I be expecting this card to work under -STABLE. Everything >>> I've read indicates so. >> >> >> >> Try adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf: >> >> hw.pcic.intr_path="1" >> >> and reboot. It enables ISA interrupt routing. >> >> Puna > > > Actually, I was just reading another post you made where you say that > you have a T41, so the above may not be necessary if your pcmcia slot is > completely pci and does not have a isa/pci bridge. > > If you do have purely pci slot, and it is panicing on boot, you may have > an irq conflict. I believe pccardd defaults to use irq 3, unless > otherwise specified. Try updating the pccardd_flags line > /boot/loader.conf to use the -i switch to allocate the appropriate irq: grr, i mean /etc/rc.conf, not /boot/loader.conf. Puna > > pccardd_flage=" -i 10" > > irq 10 happens to be my setting on an old Presario 1692. > > does the kernel panic when you try and boot the generic kernel with the > ma401 in? If not, you may have in recompiled the kernel without the > appropriate device drivers for card, pcic and wi. > > Puna > > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"