Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:41:44 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug or feature ? My FreeBSD mobile experience. Message-ID: <199809241441.IAA04864@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199809241323.KAA11803@roma.coe.ufrj.br> References: <199809240427.WAA03034@mt.sri.com> <199809241323.KAA11803@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
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> // > Also, most times my FreeBSD (-current from july end) does not detect
> // > the removal of a pccard. If I reenter the card (or even another one),
> // > it detects the removal and the insertion. It's not a hardware
> // > problem, since Win95 DTRT. Is this a know bug (instability) in the
> // > pccard subsystem ?
> //
> // It's probably a bug in your PCIC where it doesn't send interrupts when a
> // card is inserted/removed like it's supposed to. I disabled the
> // 'polling' ability in -current a while back so that people who had broken
> // hardware would tell me (~ March), and given the lack of feedback I
> // assumed that most hardware worked. :)
>
> Is there an option to enable it ?
Nope, but you can add code to put it back. Look in /sys/pccard/pcic.c
for the line:
if (validslots && pcic_irq == 0)
timeout(pcictimeout, 0, hz/2);
And change the first line to:
if (validslots)
And see if that helps.
Nate
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