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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:16:26 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cardbus issues in -current (broken again)
Message-ID:  <20040621.131626.120023060.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <200406192314.27008.plosher@plosh.net>
References:  <200406192314.27008.plosher@plosh.net>

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            Peter Losher <plosher-keyword-freebsd.a36e57@plosh.net> writes:
: Around six weeks ago, there were some fixes Warner put in to -CURRENT so 
: that Cardbus cards would be recognized at boot time on laptops such as 
: my own (Inspiron 5100) instead of having to re-insert the card (as it 
: would throw up "cbb0: Cardbus activation failed" otherwise) after the 
: system finishes booting.
: 
: That was working all fine and well, until just over two weeks ago, when I 
: updated to the latest -CURRENT cut...  Ever since then, Cardbus refuses 
: to work at all.  (My old PC Card wireless NIC still works fine)  It just 
: repeatedly spurts out "cbb0: Cardbus activation failed" when 
: (re)inserting the Atheros based Cardbus NIC I had been using quite 
: successfuly before.
: 
: Have there been any changes to the Cardbus support in the last couple of 
: weeks?  One side effect is that FreeBSD now detects the onboard Broadcom 
: NIC again (It hadn't been detected since the MB on this laptop was 
: replaced by Dell tech support earlier this year)  Because of this, I did 
: try to disable the onboard NIC to see if that fixed the Cardbus 
: detection, but to no avail. :)


Peter,
	can you send me a boot -v with hw.cbb.debug=1,
hw.cardbus.debug=1 and hw.cardbus.cis_debug=1 (these last three set at
the loader prompt or in /boot/loader.conf).

Warner



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