Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:47:40 GMT From: PEB@amleth.demon.co.uk (Paul E. Bennett) To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-RC3 installation on Dell Latitude Message-ID: <7809@amleth.demon.co.uk>
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In message <15061.53417.163815.708009@hip186.ch.intel.com> John Reynolds~ writes:
>
> Last night I downloaded and burned a 4.3-RC3 ISO and installed it from scratch
> on my Dell Latitude laptop.
Brave man!! {;>}
> Knowing from RC1-RC2 experience, went into the kernel configuration editor
> upon boot and setup pcic0 to have "irq 10". At that point everything booted
> and worked just fine through the entire install (X not installed yet though,
> so I don't know how "smooth" that is going to be).
>
> As I expected, if I didn't manually assign 'irq 10' to pcic0 the laptop just
> wedges *solid* during boot. The last line printed (from recollection) is
>
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
Exactly where mine hangs on 4.2R if I boot with the cards in. It is OK
otherwise. However, I have found some info that may help me out and will
be trying again this weekend.
> (which doesn't have anything to do with pccard but it's the last boot message
> printed before it wedges).
>
> What I'm wondering (Warner) is if during the initial "pcic: .*" probe messages
> if we could printout something to the effect of:
>
> pcic0: polling mode -- if your machine hangs use "boot -c" and assign an IRQ
Do we need that every boot? Certainly something in the trouble shooting
guide or writing the PCMCIA section of the handbook would help out (unless
they have for 4.3).
> or maybe even
>
> pcic0: polling mode -- if your machine hangs see http://..../faq/<blah>;
>
> Even when the machine wedges I can hit scroll lock and PgUp to see other boot
> messages. It seems as if this would be an easy "fix" and might help new laptop
> users (and maybe new FreeBSD -and- laptop users) figure out what's going on a
> little quicker.
>
> One observation I made is that inside the CLI kernel config editor I was
> easily able to assign "irq 10" to pcic0. However, in the Visual editor when I
> hit RET to get into the params for pcic0, I couldn't assign an IRQ. I was
> given options to change the port, iomem, and "flags." Is this a bug or
> feature?
It is also the same under 4.2R. It would be nice if they managed to fix
this aspect at the very least. maybe for 4.4 then guys.
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