Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:47:16 -0400 From: Paul Halliday <transmogrify@sympatico.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: pcmcia copout. Message-ID: <38FB9474.29970528@sympatico.ca>
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Hi. This is a re-submission. I am still trying to do this install and from what I can ascertain, none of the settings present during the install will make this card work properly. Again, this card has been tested and is working. When this card was working (3.4 stable) I had to explicitly specify its irq in the pccard.conf, if i relied on auto negotiation it would come up but not work correctly. So now, already somewhat knowing the answer to my own question, how can I hax0r the boot disks to achieve this end, ie. hardcode? Original message... Architecture: Dell Latitude Cpi i386. OS: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE NIC's: 3COM Etherlink III and 3COM Megahertz 56k modem. Media: Floppy disks / FTP via local lan to the internet. This box had 3.4-STABLE running without a hitch three days ago. I tried to cvsup it to 4.0-STABLE and for some reason while building, i decided to use the -k flag on make installworld :( . After I finally got it running again I made some backups i wiped the whole system clean. So with my shiny new install disks, the setup was goin fine, the card inits and the installation begins. However within a meg or two of transfer it dies. What I have tried: 1) all possible irq/memory configurations within sysinstalls limits. Including the default recommendations, which did not work. 2) dissabling as many devices as possible via dell's BIO's, to try and free up the pool. 3) tried the card in a different slot, and remove the other card. 4) a different server 5) set fire to my laptop. From the emergency shell if I bring the device down, then re-init, it begins transfer again, but only for a few seconds. Ping requests lag to around 300 until it goes down. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Paul. ======================================================================= Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. Email: dp@penix.org & transmogrify@sympatico.ca BIO: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org GPG Key fingerprint: 2D7C A7E2 DB1F EA5F 8C6F D5EC 3D39 F274 4AA3E8B9 Public Key's available here: http://bling.dyn.dhs.org/texts/public.html ======================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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