Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:24:05 +1000 From: Jesse Reynolds <lizst@va.com.au> To: Eric MASSON <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>, jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>, FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: zircom pc-card's on a Fujitsu Lifebook 735Dx Laptop... Message-ID: <v0420550eb4388318f917@[1.1.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <3812C709.19E089D8@kisoft-services.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910031525060.59163-100000@60-Hz.Powered-By.AC> <199910230809.CAA28033@harmony.village.org> <v04205504b4375c44a68a@[1.1.1.3]> <38120042.D8F1BE5D@kisoft-services.com> <v04205509b438434df8a2@[1.1.1.3]> <3812C2FB.F273B5E2@kisoft-services.com> <3812C709.19E089D8@kisoft-services.com>
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At 10:44 AM +0200 24/10/1999, Eric MASSON wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>you have to put pccard_enable=3D"YES" in your /etc/rc.conf. Sorry for
>previous answer, it's early in the morning here and i've just get out of
>the bed :).
:-) No worries. Okay, I had pccardd_enable=3D"YES" - close but no=20
darts. I'm trying the revised syntax now and am rebooting.
Okay, the dmesg output is pretty much unchanged, but I see in the=20
messages file that we're getting a bit further - yay! It puts the=20
same entries in when I run "pccardd dumpcis" too (except the process=20
numbers are different), which are:
Oct 24 19:56:01 pccardd[369]: No card in database for=20
"Xircom"("CreditCard Ethernet+Modem 33.")
Oct 24 19:56:06 pccardd[369]: No card in database for=20
"Xircom"("CreditCard 10Base-T")
Oct 24 19:56:06 pccardd[369]: pccardd started
Okay, so this is interesting. Perhaps we should take a few steps=20
backwards though, as I'm fairly new to FreeBSD... I'm more familiar=20
with Solaris and Linux, but i've only just done my first kernel=20
compile so I'm a bit of a baby about all this stuff. And I'm=20
completely unfamiliar with the FreeBSD PCMCIA architecture, and the=20
pc-card architecture full stop.
I started on this expedition a week ago when I decided to try getting=20
the ethernet cards working in my freebsd laptop, they are both=20
xircom's of different types, as you can see above I have a CEM33=20
(ethernet + modem) and a ethernet only one.
So, where should I go from here? According to the xe driver readme I=20
should add some lines to /etc/pccard.conf - now, I didn't have an=20
/etc/pccard.conf untile just now - I copied the .sample into this=20
location and am using this untouched - should I remove anything from=20
it? I think I need to add some lines about the two cards I have to=20
this file, but I'm not sure what to add exactly. I'm guessing=20
something like:
card "Xircom" "CreditCard 10Base-T"
config 0x1 "xe0" 10
insert ifconfig xe0 up
remove ifconfig xe0 down
Now, here's where my knowledge of PC architecture lets me down. The=20
readme says I have to choose an IRQ for the card that isn't used by=20
anything else on the system - especially not the PC card=20
controller... so, how do I tell what devices are using what IRQ? I=20
have no idea...
And which bit of this entry is the IRQ? Is it the "0x1"? or the "10"? ....
Cheers
Jesse
>For purpose test you can issue a pccardd -d from the command line, it
>will cause pccardd to start and not daemonize, useful for debugging.
>
>you can find syntax for lines in /etc/rc.conf just by searching the
>topics you need in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf is an override
>for previous file.
>
>Eric
>
>Eric MASSON a =E9crit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So could you post the following:
>> 1 - uname -a output
>> 2 - /etc/rc.conf
>> 3 - kernel config file
>> 4 - dmesg output
>>
>> I post the previous answer because, you get this kind of result if
>> pccardd isn't started when issueing pccardc dumpcis.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> Ps: Cross posting is not in standard policies of FreeBSD mailing lists.
>>
>> jesse reynolds a =E9crit :
>> >
>> > At 8:36 PM +0200 23/10/1999, Eric MASSON wrote:
>> > >Hi
>> > >
>> > >> # pccardc dumpcis
>> > >> Read return -1 bytes (expected 2)
>> > >> pccardc: CIS code read: Cannot allocate memory
>> > >> Read return -1 bytes (expected 10)
>> > >> Configuration data for card in slot 1
>> > >> 2 slots found
>> > >Enable pccardd start in /etc/rc.conf and then pccardc dumpcis will wor=
k
>> > >properly.
>> >
>> > How should I do this? eg:
>> >
>> > pccardd_start=3D"YES"
>> >
>> > is this what you mean? It's not working. I get the same output as
>> > above, only doubled, as I have both the cards installed (two of
>> > them). I'm not sure of the syntax to use here. I also tried the
>> > following with no success:
>> >
>> > pccardd_enable=3D"YES"
>> >
>> > I actually thought it might be more to do with the order of the
>> > drivers starting up in the kernel, as it tries to probe for xe before
> > > it's loaded the PC-Card driver, and initialises xe and sio:
>> >
>> > xe0: probe
>> > xe0 not found
>> > .
>> > .
>> > .
>> > PC-Card VLSI 82C146 (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
>> > pcic: controller irq 3
>> > Initializing PC-card drivers: xe sio
>> >
>> > then again I'm probably barking up the wrong tree. Anyone?
>> >
>> > cheers
>> >
>> > jesse
>> >
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