From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 30 23:52: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF4A14C83; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:51:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA03325; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:21:51 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA87140; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:21:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:21:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Strick Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard problems Message-ID: <19990701162150.G82831@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199907010556.WAA20860@math.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907010556.WAA20860@math.berkeley.edu>; from Dan Strick on Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:56:43PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 30 June 1999 at 22:56:43 -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > I am attempting to configure a couple of pccards on a DELL Inspiron 3500 > running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Neither card works: > > 1) The first card is some sort of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. It seems > to be called a "DELL Margi". Whenever the card is inserted and > pccardd is running, the entire system hangs so hard that console > I/O no longer works. Even ctl-alt-del is ignored. The power > button is ignored. I have to turn the machine off by poking a > special hidden recessed button on the side with a paper clip. > > I don't expect to find a FreeBSD driver for this card, but I would > prefer that having it physically installed didn't hang the system. Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet board on 9, it works, but only by putting pccardd on irq 5, which doesn't really work. If I pull the Ethernet card, the whole machine hangs up when I try to access the net, presumably because pccardd hasn't found out about it. > 2) The second card is a "DELL 10/100 LAN+56K Modem CardBus by 3Com". > A label on the back of the card says "Model 3CCFEM656". > > The command "pccardc dumpcis" reports: > > Configuration data for card in slot 1 > Tuple #1, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0 > > I assume that pccardd cannot recognize and configure cards without > configuration data. Is this card broken in some sense? Can anyone > recommend a driver? I've seen this kind of problem on my Latitude laptop after running Microsoft. It seems that Microsoft sets the board state in such a way that a simple reboot doesn't reset it, and this is the result. If I power down the machine and then boot it with FreeBSD, I don't have any problems. Have you tried that? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message