From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 05:05:30 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 B338916A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E9443FF2 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.7/8.11.6) id h8LC4nD96612; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:04:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030921130034.02ca1f08@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 13:01:54 +0100 To: Scott Mitchell , Jason Friedland From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: <20030921093842.GA41350@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <3F6D264A.8000005@ozemail.com.au> <3F6D264A.8000005@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM TP 600E - Xircom Cardbus 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: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:05:30 -0000 At 10:38 21/9/03, Scott Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:17:14PM +1000, Jason Friedland wrote: > > Hi there > > > > I'm after a few pointers for installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a TP 600E. I have > > installed it on this machine previously but couldn't get my Xircom > > CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + 56K Modem card working so threw the towel in. > > > > I have Slackware 9 on it right now and it works flawlessly after a bit > > of tweaking (well, all the devices such as the Xircom, sound, DVD work) > > but really want to get 5.1 going. > > > > After googling around for FreeBSD on a 600E I found an article > > (focussing on 4.7) which suggested I recompile the kernel in order to > > get the Xircom working. I did this, rebooted and still no ethernet. > > > > I know this is a bit vague but if anyone has some tips on how to get > > this card going I'd be most grateful. > > > > Jason Friedland > > (FreeBSD noob) > >As Doug says in his reply, CardBus is only supported on FreeBSD 5.x, so >you're definitely SOL getting this card to work on 4.7. > >Could you switch back to the 5.1 GENERIC kernel and post the contents of >your /etc/rc.conf, /var/log/dmesg.boot and any messages that show up on the >console when you insert the card? > >AFAIK this card is supported, but there may well be some kernel or other >config tweaking required to get the 600E to recognise it. Any other 600E >owners with working pccard slots out there know the right magic words? One thing to watch with the 600E is that early BIOSs don't support ACPI - for instance BIOS upgrade with ACPI is required to run Win2k. I have no idea whether this is relevant to the current case. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254