From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 22 9:18:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B16F14DD6 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 09:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pir@pir.net) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 11IaHI-0006KA-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:15:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:15:28 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony vaio 505TR Message-ID: <19990822121528.B22917@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <19990820020040.J166@pir.net> <19990820191356.A1536@netmonger.net> <19990820020040.J166@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990820020040.J166@pir.net>; from Peter Radcliffe on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:00:40AM -0400 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Radcliffe probably said: > My laptop arrived, I moved windows to the last 2gb of disk and grabbed the > 3.2 PAO boot floppies. > With boot -v it gets to "Considering FFS root f/s." and I see > "Card inerted, slot 0" as it recognises the net pcmcia card but > stops and hangs there. > Scroll lock scrolling works, I get inserted/removed lines if I put > the card in/out. Makes no difference if I have a card in or not. Christopher Masto probably said: > You may want to try regular 3.2. At this point, I'm not sure what > advantages PAO offers on the 505TR, as many have reported all features > working on 3.2 (pccard, sound, etc.) Regular 3.2 doesn't have the pcmcia controller in the kernel by default and I wanted to install via NFS/pcmcia net card since the windows partition is FAT32 which the installer can't read to do an existing file system install ... There are also other features about PAO I prefer (how pc_ether cards are handled and so on). I fixed my laptop's custom kernels by tweaking the pcic0 and wd0 settings, then took it to 3.2-STABLE and fixing the PAO3 patches for -STABLE (which varies in difficulty depending on how much from PAO hasn't been committed to -S - it's quite easy right now). Seems to be working nicely. You can get to the bios by pressing F2 while the "Sony" screen is up. The bios tells you what all the devices are set to. Sound works happily - just played an mp3 through it; pcm0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa ESS1879 (rev 11, native mode) Modem is detected as the second serial port (1st is a socket on the port replicator); ati3 V2.210-K56_2M_DLL OK ati6 RCV56DPF L8570A Rev 47.32/47.32 OK Modem is full V.90, I managed to get 45k in a simple test (I've never had better on my phone line with any modem). Modem use is silent, but there might be an AT command to mess with it. Modem initialisation strings from '98 (with the turn echo off removed) are: AT&C1&D2S95=47S0=0 ATS7=60S30=0L1M1\N3%C3&K3BX4 Specific configs I used are: options "CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU" controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 controller wdc1 at isa? disable port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 controller wdc2 at isa? disable port "IO_WD2" bio irq ? disk wd3 at wdc2 drive 0 options PCIC_RESUME_RESET # reset after resume pseudo-device card 1 device pcic0 at isa? port 0x3e0 irq 11 device pcm0 at isa? port ? tty irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x0 device psm0 at isa? tty irq 12 flags 0x800 Plus the usual defaults for most everything else. (like the standard 2nd serial port for the modem). Taps on the touch pad work as clicks in X, if you suspend the machine, plug the port replicator in with a PS/2 mouse plugged in and un-suspend it, the mouse switches to using the PS/2 mouse. After hearing about pcmcia scsi basicly not working yet in 3.2 :( I'm going to get one of the IDE cdrom drives for it, hopefully it will boot from a non sony cdrom drive (bios implies it will boot from any IDE cdrom drive). How hard is it to cam-ify a driver ? I've got a New Media Bus Toaster scsi card that is in the PAO3 config file and is recognised but the device hasn't been cam-ified. I want to stick with 3.2 I can't get USB working. With PNP OS off in the bios: usb0: usb0: root device is not a hub device_probe_and_attach: usb0 attach returned 6 With it on: uhci0: rev 0x01 int d irq 255 on pci0.7.2 create_intr: requested irq255 too high, limit is 15 usb0: could not map irq My D-LINK DFE-650 10/100 pcmcia card works fine, but doesn't negotiate 10bT/full duplex on my switch. It does get fdx in windows :/ My switch thinks it is fdx, the card thinks not and I'm getting terrible throughput due to that mismatch. Depending on how I tweak configs in pccard.conf and the kernel, my Sandisk flashcard either fails to attatch or hard hangs the machine (I'm guessing a conflict between it and the main IDE controller). Most recent attempt has the kernel as above and pccard.conf with: io 0x260-0x2f7 io 0x300-0x377 ignirq 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 # SunDisk Flash ATA card "SunDisk" ".*" config 0x03 "wdc2" 15 insert logger -s SunDisk Flash ATA inserted remove logger -s SunDisk Flash ATA removed I've tried forcing it to 15, any, the remaining config tuples ... nothing seems to help. All my other pcmcia cards (modem, net, etc) that are supported work fine. The same card works fine in my 3.2-STABLE-PAO desktop box. Any clues on those last problems ? Generally I'm very happy with the 505TR, very nice little laptop, strongly recommended. P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@shore.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message