Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:49:04 -0700 (MST) From: Rudolfo Munguia <rudog@primenet.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: 4.4 pccard insanity Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.1011109084312.7323A-100000@usr01.primenet.com>
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Hello all, Here is the short version of my problem thus far, I inherited a Compaq Contura Aero 486sx33 laptop. It is equipped with 8mb ram and 160mb hd. Of course, I just had to Install FreeBSD :). Getting the hd changed from DOS3.2+WFW3.11 to FreeBSD4.4 was a breeze; although it did take approximately 6.5 hours to download and install over the handy plip cable I made just for the occasion. I am running 4.4-release minimal install generic kernel. This uses approximately 90% of my 36mb / partition and 80% of my 110mb /usr partition. I also created a 16mb swap partition. Everything ran beautifully out of the gate. Then I decided to upgrade to real Ethernet rather than use plip. I purchased a "Network Everywhere" NP10T as the box stated "NE2000 compatible"and it was listed in the pccard.conf. Inserting the card without pccard_enabled in the rc.conf and booting gave: pcic0: <Intel i82365SL-DF> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 on isa0 pcic0: Polling mode pccard0: <PC Card bus(classic)> on pcic0 pccard: card inserted, slot 0 with happy blinking link+status leds before mounting ad0 and going live. I then started pccardd from the command line and received: reboot in 15 seconds from which I was unable to abort, then was forced into manual fsck after the reboot. I have tried over a total of about 30 hours of troubleshooting to get a screenshot or dump of what is going on to post to the group, Basically what I have been able to determine is that the pcic implementation is arguing with something else over irq's and then tries to grab the ata/ad0 irq which causes a kernel panic, which then also causes page faults etc,etc, I have read through the past 2 years of post here on freebsd-mobile and see that many others ahve been suffering a similar fate. And I have tried all of the same fixes (mods to loader.conf / rc.conf / pccard.conf / pcic.c / sysctl.conf / kernel / BIOS+pnp+irq) to no avail. I am anxious to help remedy this problem as it would benefit everybody. Can anybody suggest/relate troubleshooting methods that they are unwilling or unable to try themselves? This is basically just a toy for me, so I am more than happy to drag it through the mud in the name of science. :) rudog@primenet.com 'If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much space' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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