Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:26:45 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Burbaickij Ariel <Ariel.Burbaickij@erl9.siemens.de>, "'wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG'" <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Xircom troubles [was: Re: Information I was requested for] Message-ID: <20001207192645.46046@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1F69DAAD3391D411BE5300805FBED48B496BF9@ERLM511A.erl9.siemens.de>; from Burbaickij Ariel on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:35:20AM %2B0100 References: <1F69DAAD3391D411BE5300805FBED48B496BF9@ERLM511A.erl9.siemens.de>
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:35:20AM +0100, Burbaickij Ariel wrote: > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG] > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2000 23:57 > An: Ariel.Burbaickij@erl9.siemens.de > Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > Betreff: Re: Information I was requested for > > > xe0 at port 0x240-0x24f iomem 0xd0000-0xd0fff irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0 > > xe0: Compaq CE3 , bonding version 0x45 , 100Mbps capable > > xe0: DingoID = 0x44b , RevisionID = 0 , VendorID = 0 > > xe0: Ethernet address 00:08:c7:0c:7c:b6 > > /etc/pccard_ether: not found > > Alright, so this is a Xircom PCMCIA card with a Compaq label on it. There > are two possible problems (and I'm guessing here since I didn't write this > driver): > > 1) The media is set wrong, and you need to specify the right media > using ifconfig options when sysinstall asks you. > > Media is not set wrong because it was not set at all. It was DHCP > task to provide whatever neccesary.It failed. > > 2) Some other device is using IRQ 5 on your machine. You need to either > turn off whatever hardware is using IRQ 5, or convince FreeBSD to > assign a different IRQ to the card. > > No other device is using IRQ 5 (besides even if . Why I was not informed > about it? > Why was irq 5 choosen by system silently without warning me? I guess it > is not > so desperately hard to find whether the irq is already used or not) > > > So I do not see any senseful suggestions so far. First of all, could you please quote your replies in a more normal way -- I'm having great trouble following which parts of these messages are Bill's and which are your replies. Anyway, back to the problem at hand. Xircom cards are somewhat notorious for being very picky about which IRQs they will work with (I have no idea why). Try changing your /etc/pccard.conf to force the card onto IRQ 10 or 11, assuming nothing else is already using these. Xircoms like those IRQs :-) The watchdog timeouts you've been getting are symptomatic of interrupts not being received for packets sent out. The usual cause of this is a bad IRQ choice. I see a '/etc/pccard_ether: not found' in your dmesg output: are you sure that file and anything it might reference actually do exist? I wouldn't be so sure there's nothing lurking on IRQ 5, either. The laptop I'm typing this on (a ThinkPad 380D) has audio hardware that likes to sit there without telling you about it -- caused no end of problems with the Xircom driver before I discovered this. You might want to drop DHCP and configure the thing by hand until you know it's working. One less variable to worry about. Hope that helps, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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