Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 00:40:56 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Alex Varju" <alex@varju.bc.ca>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: pccard problem with compaq armada e500 Message-ID: <008601c0af87$265c41c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103172318440.3509-100000@login.webct.com>
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If you want to chase a problem and possibly find a fix then you won't like this, but if your just trying to get work done, you could do a lot worse than by replacing that 3C574B card with a 3C589 card. The 589 cards are also cheap and plentiful. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alex Varju >Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 11:48 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: alex@varju.bc.ca >Subject: pccard problem with compaq armada e500 > > >Hi there, > >I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Compaq Armada e500, and have run into >a bit of a snag. I've done a little bit of searching, and found somebody >else who seems to have had the same problem several months ago, with no >solution found: > > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2335+4178+/usr/local/ww w/db/text/2000/freebsd-mobile/20001119.freebsd-mobile > >To summarize, I have a 3Com 3C574B card which hangs the laptop when I >insert it (or boot with it inserted). I installed 4.2-RELEASE from CD, >and started to play from there. > >I came up with some hair-brained plan to try enabling the kernel debugging >code, with the hopes that maybe I could figure out what is supposed to be >going on .. I don't actually have any clue what I would do once I was into >the debugger, but I thought it might be interesting to learn. After >recompiling the release source to include 'option DDB', I rebooted and >suddenly everything worked. > >I figured that this was rather strange, but decided to take advantage of >my suddenly functional network connection and install a -STABLE snapshot >from earlier this month (march 3), as well as some packages. After doing >all this, I rebooted with the -STABLE build of the kernel (DDB enabled), >and again the pc card wouldn't work. I backed out to the -RELEASE kernel >that I compiled, and stuff resumed functioning. > >>From my perspective, this seems rather strange. I have a machine that is >working, but I'm not comfortable with the fact that I can't make any >changes to it without risking breaking things. I'm completely willing to >put my share of work into trying to resolve this, but I don't have any >clue where to start looking. Can somebody give me some advice or >suggestions here? > >Thanks, >Alex > >-- >alex varju <alex@varju.bc.ca> >just a guy >webct canada > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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