From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 5 1:45:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9827415355 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 01:45:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA94243; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:44:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:44:19 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Darryl Okahata Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed driver problem In-Reply-To: <199909050012.RAA14145@mina.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Does your bios have a setting for 'PNP compliant OS' or similar? If it > > does, set it to 'no' and see if it helps. The current pci code relies on > > the bios to program port and memory locations for cards and its possible > > that this isn't happening for your card/bios combination. > > On a slightly different tack, the ed0 driver no longer seems to > work for PCMCIA cards (from a Sept.2 cvsup'd -current). It used to work > on a Aug 23rd -current. > > I've got an old Toshiba Tectra 730XCDT laptop, and my Accton EN2216 > PCMCIA 10BT LAN card no longer works. However, I'm not sure if my > problem is related to the recent pnp changes or not. At bootup, the > kernel reports: > > pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum > > I've been getting this forever, and it's never seemed to cause any > problems (I also have no idea how to fix this, as this is a laptop). > Running pnpinfo shows no pnp devices, which is usual (it did this with > the older versions of -current, too). > > Here's the basic problem: at bootup, the kernel doesn't report the > presence (or absence) of an ed0 device (I've forgotten if this is > supposed to happen or not). When I insert the LAN card, the pccardd > daemon reports: > > driver allocation failed for ACCTON(EN2216-PCMCIA-ETHERNET): Device not configured > > (The pccardd daemon is trying to use the ed0 driver.) I know about this. I'm hoping to work this out with Warner (who is working on pccard) since it should be fixed by some of his pending pccard work. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message