From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 2 02:20:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763F716A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from farside.isc.org (farside.isc.org [204.152.187.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7685B43FAF for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter_Losher@isc.org) Received: from dhcp-2.sql1.plosh.net (tardis-nat.plosh.net [64.139.14.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by farside.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2501A85C for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:20:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter_Losher@isc.org) From: Peter Losher Organization: ISC To: mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:21:00 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200312020104.04795.plosher@plosh.net> In-Reply-To: <200312020104.04795.plosher@plosh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312020221.00150.Peter_Losher@isc.org> Subject: Re: HP Pavilion ze4400 and 5.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:20:54 -0000 Additional info: When booting with the card in, it seems to detect the card fine, but the lockup reappears when I ifconfig the correct ssid and wepkey for the local Wi-Fi location. (I say this because I thought I had it working, but then realized I had a case mismatch in the SSID) :( Also, I noticed the "sis0: watchdog timeout" issue goes away when I boot the system w/ verbose logging - for now - is there a loader.conf tweak to automatically select that at the boot menu? Best Wishes - Peter On Tuesday 02 December 2003 01:04 am, Peter Losher wrote: > All of that would be moot if I could get the PCMCIA wireless card to > work. I purchased a Airlink+ PCMCIA card at Fry's (it's the only > 16bit PC Card 802.11b card they sell these days, although they do keep > a heady supply) It's a fine, if ugly, card - It's using a Prism v2.5 > chipset, and works fine on my production laptop (Dell Inspiron 5100) > under the wi driver. However, any PC Card you stick in the slot > causes the whole system to freeze.... hard. > > I have tried all the tricks I used on this Dell, turning on > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range, but to no avail. Does anyone here > have a recent HP Pavilion laptop, and if so, how did you get your > wireless card to work? -- Peter_Losher@isc.org | ISC | OpenPGP Key E8048D08 | "The bits must flow"