Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 02:11:36 -0500 From: "michael Jarrett" <ruddyjam@hotmail.com> To: rudog@primenet.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 pccard insanity Message-ID: <F17FWSriZj5eJbLzbfy00016fe3@hotmail.com>
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I had a Linksys NP100 Card for over a year and no matter what I placed in the "pccard.conf" file, neither FreeBSD nor any of the other BSD's or Linux could recognize it. I got fustrated and finally invested $30. in a D-Link DFE-670-TXD card and placed the following in the 'pccard.conf" file and I've had absolutely no problems since. # D-Link DFE-670TXD 10/100 Card card "D-Link" "DFE-670TXD" config auto "ed" ? 0x1 insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop Hope that helps!! Thanks to the web page "http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stein/howtos/pccard.txt" RJ >From: Rudolfo Munguia <rudog@primenet.com> >To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org >Subject: 4.4 pccard insanity >Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:49:04 -0700 (MST) > >Hello all, > >Here is the short version of my problem thus far, > >I inherited a Compaq Contura Aero 486sx33 laptop. It is equipped with 8mb >ram and 160mb hd. Of course, I just had to Install FreeBSD :). > >Getting the hd changed from DOS3.2+WFW3.11 to FreeBSD4.4 was a breeze; >although it did take approximately 6.5 hours to download and install over >the handy plip cable I made just for the occasion. > >I am running 4.4-release minimal install generic kernel. This uses >approximately 90% of my 36mb / partition and 80% of my 110mb /usr >partition. I also created a 16mb swap partition. > >Everything ran beautifully out of the gate. Then I decided to upgrade to >real Ethernet rather than use plip. I purchased a "Network Everywhere" >NP10T as the box stated "NE2000 compatible"and it was listed in the >pccard.conf. > >Inserting the card without pccard_enabled in the rc.conf and booting gave: > >pcic0: <Intel i82365SL-DF> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 on isa0 >pcic0: Polling mode >pccard0: <PC Card bus(classic)> on pcic0 >pccard: card inserted, slot 0 > >with happy blinking link+status leds before mounting ad0 and going live. > >I then started pccardd from the command line and received: > >reboot in 15 seconds > >from which I was unable to abort, then was forced into manual fsck after >the reboot. I have tried over a total of about 30 hours of troubleshooting >to get a screenshot or dump of what is going on to post to the group, > >Basically what I have been able to determine is that the pcic >implementation is arguing with something else over irq's and then tries to >grab the ata/ad0 irq which causes a kernel panic, which then also causes >page faults etc,etc, > >I have read through the past 2 years of post here on freebsd-mobile and >see that many others ahve been suffering a similar fate. And I have tried >all of the same fixes (mods to loader.conf / rc.conf / pccard.conf / >pcic.c / sysctl.conf / kernel / BIOS+pnp+irq) to no avail. > >I am anxious to help remedy this problem as it would benefit everybody. >Can anybody suggest/relate troubleshooting methods that they are unwilling >or unable to try themselves? This is basically just a toy for me, so I am >more than happy to drag it through the mud in the name of science. :) > >rudog@primenet.com >'If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up too much space' > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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