From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 3 5:26:59 2001 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 05:26:56 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mirage.nlink.com.br (mirage.nlink.com.br [200.249.195.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63ADF37B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 05:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16906 invoked by uid 501); 3 Jan 2001 13:26:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 2001 13:26:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:26:43 -0200 (EDT) From: Paulo Fragoso To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi0 or isab0 trouble? In-Reply-To: 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 Hi, I've comited a little mistake. I've got a script install and its was changed one line: wicontrol -i wi0 -t 6 to wicontrol -t wi0 -t 6 Our suggestion is "wicontrol" report "invalid option" in cases like this. Excuse-me, Paulo. On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > We was using FreeBSD and WaveLAN without problems. But now we are trying > to use 4.2-20001219-STABLE and we are found some problems. We have got > one PII 350MHz (chiset 440 BX motherboard) working fine, but using some > old motherboards we get this error: > > wi0: device timeout > wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: tx buffer allocation failed > wi0: failed to alloacte 1594 bytes on NIC > wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed > > That old motherboard has got the chipset VIA VT82C576M with a Pentium > 100MHz. Looking at result from dmesg there is a little difference: > > work-> there are isab0 and isa0 at motherboard that works: > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > > don't work-> there isn't isab0!!!: > isa0: on isab0 > > We've got another older motherboard (chipset intel TX) working fine with > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, and we can found isab0 on dmesg: > isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > > Likely the wi0 require a isab0 (I think). Why when are we using FreeBSD > 4.2-STABLE we can't found a isab0 on old motherboard? Why don't wi0 works? > > We've installed FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE on same VIA motherboard to test and > all works fine. But on that motherboard we can't found a isab0 with dmesg, > too. Are we thinking wrong? > > When we are using same motherboard (VIA VT82C576M) with FBSD 4.1-RELEASE > are all working fine? We've tested FBSD 4.2-RELEASE and > 4.2-20001219-STABLE and both don't work on this motherboard. > > Finally: Why are all versions tested of FreeBSD working fine using a 440BX > motherboard? > > Thanks, > Paulo Fragoso. > > -- > __O > _-\<,_ Why drive when you can bike? > (_)/ (_) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- __O _-\<,_ Why drive when you can bike? (_)/ (_) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message