Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:11:32 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <s.ohara@elsevier.nl> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recent pccard and floppy problem Message-ID: <199902120211.SAA09065@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:31:29 %2B0100." <XFMail.990211113129.sohara@mardil.elsevier.nl>
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> A recent cvsup (to RELENG_3 about two days ago) has developed the > following problems on my laptop: > > 1: pccard no longer attaches my NE2000 clone card, pccardd properly > finds the ed0 driver but doesn't use the port and memory info from the tuple > but seems to pick up some quite bogus defaults (port 0x240 mem 0) I haven't > figured out where from yet (they are not what the driver is configured to nor > are they in any of the tuples). This is particularly odd, since there's been no change at all in that code for quite some time. > 2: The floppy drive cannot be used once FreeBSD is up and running, it > is recognised at boot time it even can be heard to do a seek to track zero as > the driver initialises but attempt to access it from a prompt (dd, mount mdir > anything) and the thing doesn't even spin up. Ack. Is anyone else seeing this? Obviously none of the developers have hit this, or we'd have heard about it by now. > If I could fix one or other of these problems I would be much happier, > I can dig into things and make small patches by hand I just can't get the box > connected to the outside world (until I get home where there is a modem that > is). Do you have an old kernel you can boot? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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