Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:42:32 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@embratel.net.br> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, John Gordon <john.gordon@windriver.com> Subject: Re: xe driver broken? (Solution) Message-ID: <20020114214233.000445D1A@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:10:49 -0200." <3C431F29.E29A38AF@embratel.net.br>
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:10:49 -0200 > From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@embratel.net.br> > > Hi, > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > OK. The issue is to figure out why the driver is having a problem > > loading. A common cause of this is iomem address conflict, so lets try > > adjusting that. > > > > Try this: > > sysctl -w machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd00000 > > Something changed, but still did not work. The CIS mapping could read > something, but still, nonsense. Went to the sources, and suspected you meant > 0xd0000, one zero less. It worked! Can't type or can't count. Either way, I'm glad that this fixed it. > > Looking in Windows resources, pcmcia devices start using from 0xcc000. > Tried this, and it is working. > > Setting sysctl from rc.local is not useful, since I need to remove and > reinsert the card before using it. I tried to fix it by setting the default > at /boot/loader.conf, but it did not work. Setting it at /etc/sysctl.conf > seems to work, but there is a race condition. Maybe the memory range > detection should be fixed, and/or loader should be taught how to set it. I think you can do this in /etc/pccard.conf. This will be used each time the card is inserted. Just edit/create /etc/pccard.conf and put changes from /etc/defaults/pccard into it. Contents of pccard.conf will override those of /etc/defaults/pccard.conf. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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