From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 17 4:11: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fxp.dhs.org (cx19313-a.nwptn1.va.home.com [24.2.49.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2AB155E3 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 04:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.dhs.org) Received: from earth.fxp.dhs.org (earth.fxp.dhs.org [192.168.1.21]) by fxp.dhs.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA08796; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:10:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.dhs.org) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 07:10:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" To: Neill Thornton Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CTX Laptop Saga... In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990317132950.0092f160@mail.coastalnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Neill Thornton wrote: > It recognizes the insertion of the card ("Card Inserted, Slot 1" or similar) and then reports "sio2: 16550 UART", but none of the pccardd info comes up (i.e. "Accton PCMCIA Modem Inserted") > Unless you compile pccardd w/-DDEBUG, Insert/Removal messages aren't present like in 2.2.x; all I get is the 'sio2: 16550 UART' message too. > It also recognizes the removal, and even frees IRQ 11. > > When I re-insert the card, it first says sio2: Unfielded Interrupt (0) > But then sio2: 16550 UART. > From my understanding, the 'Unfielded Interrupt' messages are harmless. > It's all a moot point anyway because as soon as I issue the following commands, the machine locks cold: > > laptop#ppp > [snip] > ppp>set device /dev/cuaa2 > ppp>set speed 57600 > ppp>term > > It took me about 5 hours to get my modem to work...ended up simply raising the reset time in pccard.conf; you may want to try... > I strait copied the files from the tarball into the appropriate directories (/etc/rc.conf, /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/PLUTO, and /etc/pccard.conf) > > I kept all the files exactly how they were, with minor changes (hostname, IP addr, gateway, and disable softupdates in the kernel). I have the same ethernet card, so that pccard.conf entry I left alone, and added the entry for my modem out of pccard.conf.sample. > > I compared the dmesg you sent me with the dmesg I have... there are only a few diffs, all minor relating to the 4 GB hd I have vice the 2 GB in yours, and the 266MHz cpu vice 233Mhz. All the relevent dmesg output is *exactly the same*. > > I am beginning to think that it is not the kernel. The things I am thinking of are: > > 1) I am running 3.1-RELEASE. You are on -STABLE. Maybe there has been a change to the pcic code since -RELEASE? How could I check that? How can I run cvsup if I cannot get on to the net? > I was at 3.1-RELEASE for a few weeks (after following 3.0-CURRENT and 3.0-STABLE) right after it came out...everything has always worked. > 2) You have a BIOS setting changed somewhere that I do not. I am including my complete BIOS setup below. I got the latest BIOS flash from CTX earlier. > I flashed my BIOS a month or so ago...seemed to take care of some APM stuff mostly. > 3) Maybe CTX changed the design of the machine itself between the time you got your machine, and I got mine? > This is possible...I bought mine in July... > 4) That my office is full of bad vibes interfering with pcic? (One of my friends is a Wicca, he said he will cast a spell on it to see if that helps :) ) > Always worth a try. > I really appreciate you sending me the info.... I am so close I can almost taste it. I tried the Linksys card for shits and giggles, didn't work, but didn't lock the machine either. > > Take a look at the BIOS settings below and see if they hash with yours.... thanks again! > > Neill > > ------------------------ > BIOS Settings: > > SystemSoft Version 1.01 (2482-00) > SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 430TX Subversion 1.23.09.f > > *snip* > Same setting here, except that I have power-saving disabled...I don't know if that will really affect the system, but perhaps so... -------------------------------------------------------------- | All the true gurus I've met never | Chris D. Faulhaber | | claimed they were one, and always | | | pointed to someone better. | | -------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message