Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 07:36:38 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Watchdog Timeouts Message-ID: <F118KPtXmtknuLyvNng0000acf1@hotmail.com>
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> >Please, surely there must be ANYONE who knows something about this. Which >mail-list can I also address to try t solve this? > > > Since FreeBSD 4.5, I've been using a Toshiba Satellite 320 CDT laptop >with > > a Xircom Realport REM56G PCMCIA networkcard (and modem). While not easy, >I > > got it to work under 4.5, and later 4.6 by setting it to PCIC-complaint > > under the BIOS (instead of 16bit mode), using IRC 10 and putting > > machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd0000 in sysctl.conf. I always got a few >Watchdog > > timeouts on starting up and when the card had to autonegoiate the media, >but > > it worked. > > > > Now, I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, and the card has stopped working :-( >Tried > > everything in the book (I think) to get it working again, but to no >avail. > > It doesn't crash FreeBSD anymore like when for using 16bit PCCARD-mode >in > > the BIOS and a shared IRQ 11, however it just doesn't to work. The > > connection LED goes on, but the receive LED never blinks, EVER. After a >few > > second, a watchdog timeout occurs and the connections LED goes out and >on > > again. > > > > I did notice a difference between 4.5 / 4.6 and 4.7. Just before the >pccard > > deamon starts, I would see the machdep.pccard.mem_start value changing >from > > something like 65360 to 85xxx. Later on I would see it again but from >85xxx > > to 85xxx (same value twice), rpobably from the entry I put in the > > sysctl.conf (machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd4000). > > It doesn't anymore, just says the 8xxxx to 8xxxx at the end... > > > > Any idea's / suggestions? My guess is, that everything is OK (no IRC > > confilicts etc) , except for the place in memory that is used for the > > driver... > > > > Kind Regards, > > Sander Holthaus > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message you might try reposting this to freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, which deals directly with laptop/mobile computing. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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