From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Feb 17 13:52:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B2D37B401 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14UFHT-0001NI-00; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 21:52:39 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1HLq0S01729; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:52:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:52:00 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: simond@irrelevant.org Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Armada E700 and PCMCIA/Cardbus slots? Message-ID: <20010217225200.A1693@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20010216164635.C10482@freebie.demon.nl> <20010216154618.B90756@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010216154618.B90756@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:46:18PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:46:18PM +0000, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:46:35PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'd like to get the PCMCIA/Cardbus slots of my (well, my employer's) > > Compaq Armada E700 working with FreeBSD. So much little luck (on -stable). > > Inserting a card locks up te machine solid. > > > > Any E700 owner/user out there that has this working? > > I don't own a E700, but my Vaio F807k did that too, I needed to allocate an > irq for pcic0 in my kernel config file and now it's all working perfectly. > > Hope this helps you You're a hero! ;-) Specifying irq11 for the pcic fixed the hangs. Suddenly things work (PCMCIA Psion modem, DEPCM DEC ethernet, Adaptec 1460B SCSI) like expected. The only restriction is that the cards must be in the slots before booting in order to be detected. Removal also goes unnoticed. Well, I can live with this, no problem. thanks again Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message