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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:33:38 -0800
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@MexComUSA.net>
To:        Alan DuBoff <aland@SoftOrchestra.com>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DE-660
Message-ID:  <36D9D252.58838B37@MexComUSA.net>
References:  <36D9B7BC.B1861E9E@MexComUSA.net> <36D9CC2B.CB95CF42@SoftOrchestra.com>

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Alan,

I changed the memory, just like yours and it works.  I have no idea why, but it
works:-)  I had changed everything except the memory, in fact I hadn't even seen
the line until your mail.:-)

Thanks a lot,

ed

Alan DuBoff wrote:

> Ed,
>
> I'll try to offer a couple pieces of advice, however, I'm new to FreeBSD and
> just getting over my problems of getting my Thinkpad going with PCMCIA.
>
> Edwin Culp wrote:
> >
> > The dmesg from the AMS TECH - AMD K6 300
> >
> > Gives me the above error after
> >
> > PC-Card VLSI 82C146  (5 mem & 2 I/O windows)
> > pcic: controller irq 5
> > Initializing PC-card drivers:  ed sio
> > RTC BIOS diagnostic error 20<config_unit>   ****
> > changing root device to wd0s2a
> > Card inserted, slot 1
>
> Your IRQ is being assigned to 5, so I assume you don't have sound in your
> laptop, since they typically use 5 (although they don't have to I guess.
>
> That all looks ok.
>
> >
> >     It finishes coming up and then
> >
> > laptop pccardd[52]: driver allocation failed for D-Link
> > pccardd started
>
> My guess is that the address of your memory is not correct. I had to change the
> memory location for my laptop as it was overlapped with some other video stuff
> in my Thinkpad, not sure if that is your problem or not, but it's not
> allocating, and allocating is typically associated with memory!<G>
>
> >
> > Could that be the reason that I can't get my DE-660 card to work?
> >
> > My entry en pccard.conf is:
> >
> > card "D-Link"   "DE-660"
> >     config 0x20 "ed0" 10  0x10
> >     insert  echo DLink NE2000 inserted
> >     insert /etc/pccard_ether ed0 link0 -link1
> >     remove echo D-Link NE2000 removed
> >     remove /sbin/ifconfig ed0 delete
>
> What is the other line, the one that says:
>
> memory 0xd4000  96k
>
> Does it still have that by default? Look in your laptop manual and see where you
> can move that to, or do a dmesg and see if any information from anything else
> will help you.
>
> >
> > My kernel config is now only
> >
> > device ed0
> >
> > I have tried
> > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd000 vector edintr
> > and several others with no luck
>
> I would try and leave everything the way it was and figure out what address and
> how much space you can give it.
>
> I have mine set to:
>
> memory 0xd0000 16k
>
> And that seems to be enough memory for my cards that are installed (no NIC
> though, they might need a bigger frame buffer to work with. I only have a SCSI
> and Modem. I see you have a combo NIC/Modem as it's using ed and sio. Is that
> correct?
>
> --
>
> Alan DuBoff - Conductor
> Software Orchestration, Inc.
> aland@SoftOrchestra.com
>
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