From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 3 16:59: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (msgbas1x.cos.agilent.com [192.6.9.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E990937B43F for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 16:59:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.and.agilent.com (msgrel1.and.agilent.com [130.30.33.104]) by msgbas1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC431295; Thu, 3 May 2001 17:59:00 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.and.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C850DB; Thu, 3 May 2001 19:58:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id QAA21349; Thu, 3 May 2001 16:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105032358.QAA21349@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: George Michaelson Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL Latitude 400 and pccard? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 May 2001 08:42:37 +1000." <15736.988929757@apnic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 16:58:56 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org George Michaelson wrote: > Yes, I tried this and it works in as much as I now get pcic working, pc card > insertion works (and removal) I get no hangs, but I still get (NULL) (NULL) > card recognition and I don't think I understand (yet) how to get a free irq > or make a free irq on this box, so I can allocate it to the pccard under the > pcic controller now on 5. 5 is one of the irqs that pccard.conf tries to use > to allocate to its 'children' so I assume I now have to (a) override that > in the /etc/pccard.conf and (b) find another one to use.. If you're getting insertion and removal messages, that's a good sign. You may have gotten over the IRQ hump. The "(NULL) (NULL)" messages may be due to a pcic memory conflict. What does "pccardc dumpcis" display? If you get messages like "code XXX ignored", where "XXX" is a number, then you may have a memory conflict. > Ok. Thats worth persuing. I've nver used USB, so I don't mind doing without i > t > but it does beg the question: what does somebody who NEEDS usb do, if they > also need to use pcmcia? How does windeath manage this? In theory, PCI devices can share IRQs. In practice (in FreeBSD), it depends. The FreeBSD 4.X pcic device is, alas, special in that it cannot share IRQs (Warner just verified this). With luck, the USB device can share IRQs (but I don't know this for a fact). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message