From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 4 8:42:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E6B14FE4; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port3.annex8.radix.net (port3.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.3]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01478; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:42:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:42:10 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: Mike Kephart Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reboot hangs and pccard change questions In-Reply-To: <36DEA89D.8935C537@baynetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Mike Kephart wrote: > Hi, > > I have two problems which have shown up after upgrading from > 3.0-RELEASE to > 3.1-STABLE (as of 2/3/99 at 18:00 CST). The hardware being used here is > a > Dell Latitude CPi laptop. > > 1. The "reboot" command now hangs - on this laptop this is > especially > irritating since the power button is ineffective. Halt still works > fine. > [ I swear I saw this same problem posted recently, but could not find > it in the archives... ] THAT WAS ME! Yes, I have the same problem on the same laptop. You might want to send this stuff to freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG along with freebsd-questions, that's for laptop stuff. I'm going to take out apm from the kernel, then pccard stuff, and keep reducing to see if I can find the problem. BTW, has anything changed in the reboot command that might cause a hang after rebooting... > > 2. I'm using the Xircom if_xe 1.14 beta pccard driver from Scott > Mitchell. Under > 3.1-STABLE, the driver never gets initialized - the driver name doesn't > show up in the "Initializing PC-CARD drivers:" message from > pccard_configure(). > I was guessing this may have something to do with the return value from > the driver's probe() routine (if_xe always returns 0), but random > attempts > at changing this value induced panics. > > I'm hoping someone more familiar with the pccard code might have some > suggestions. > > Thanks, > \MikeK > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message