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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2002 00:40:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
To:        Greg Smith <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why would my laptop suddenly start failing to probe  pccards?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202200034210.23266-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202200027330.23266-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net>

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Hi greg;


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, John Utz wrote:

> fast response! thankyou!
> 
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Greg Smith wrote:
> 
> > John,
> > 
> > Were those warm or cold reboots?
> 
> warm, cold, medium, lukewarm, cooked, uncooked, raw :-)
> 
> >  It has been a known problem that FreeBSD will not always fully reset
> > devices like pcic or pcm after running Windows.
> 
> yah, i've been here before, but never had any problem escaping from this 
> trap.
> 
> > If it was me I would have the card work properly in Windows, shut down
> > the cards and Windows properly, then cold boot into FreeBSD after a
> > while.
> 
> oh. shutting down the cards in windows is something that i havent tried 
> yet.
> 
> i'll do that and report back to the list, just for completeness.

it was a good suggestion. but it failed to help.

same same with the "(null)""(null)" even after revisiting win98se and 
shutting the cards down and pulling them out and then powering the laptop 
off. and then turning it on and booting to freebsd and then reinserting 
the cards.

rats.

stumped i am.

> > Good luck.
> 
> tnx!
> 
> > Greg
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 
> > >hi;
> > >
> > >it's the stupidest dang thing.
> > >
> > >this laptop has been running 4.4-RELEASE swimmingly for months now.
> > >
> > >the only thing that may have been unusual is that i may have popped
> > the 
> > >cards out while in win98se without shutting them down first.
> > >
> > >now despite numerous bootings back and forth beteen freebsd and
> > win98se, 
> > >it's lost the ability to parse the CIS in freebsd, and i get the
> > infamous 
> > >"(null)""(null)" for my plain ol' 3com 574bt.
> > >
> > >the computer is an hp800ct and the cardbus controller is the TI 
> > >PCI1131,pcinum 0xac15104c
> > >
> > >suggestions appreciated!
> > >
> > >tnx!
> > >
> > >johnu
> > >
> > >-- 
> > >
> > >John L. Utz III
> > >john@utzweb.net
> > >
> > >Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life
> > >
> > >
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> 

-- 

John L. Utz III
john@utzweb.net

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