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Subject: Re: Bug or feature ?  My FreeBSD mobile experience.
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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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