From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 25 22:18:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chung.yikes.com (dsl-65-184-72-125.telocity.com [65.184.72.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F6737B400 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 22:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (leonard@localhost) by chung.yikes.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4Q5I6643676 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 22:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leonard@chung.yikes.com) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 22:18:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chung To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Cirrus PD6729 Still Broken? Message-ID: <20020525220909.P43653-100000@chung.yikes.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD used to support the Cirrus Logic PD6729 pc card chipset fine until around 4.3 when the new PCCARD got merged in. Since then, trying to boot a machine with that chipset causes the machine to hang once pccardd is started and a card is inserted. The man page has stated for a while that support might be broken "at the moment." I have an old laptop with this chipset that I'd love to be able to make into an IPSEC wireless AP using FreeBSD. I've been able to get an NE2000 working on the machine by booting into DOS and running its driver program to start up card services and initialize the card with an interrupt and IO address. I can then soft restart into FreeBSD and use those values with the ed driver directly. However, I can't use this work around with Orinocos since they don't have a DOS mode driver. Has anybody been able to come up with any other workarounds that can be done to initialize an Orinoco on a machine with broken pc card support? Is the pc card support something that might be fixed in the near future (if ever)? Leonard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message