Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:09:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [WORKING] Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups Message-ID: <20030724063952.GJ5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <1059027887.79467.52.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1059025604.79467.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030724061526.GI5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1059027887.79467.52.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--EWehNWXqjd1oOl26 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 2:24:47 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:15, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 1:46:44 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >>> I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5150 thinking it would be a nice >>> replacement for my 8100. So far, I'm not impressed. The BroadCom >>> BCM440x ethernet controller isn't supported, and everytime I insert a >>> PCMCIA card, the machine locks. >> >> Heh. Ditto, s/5150/5100/ > > Follow-up! James R. Higgins <sysop@bat21.net> suggested doing: > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > hw.cbb.start_memory=0x30000000 > > This fixed the hang, but I still wasn't able to use my PCMCIA cards. > Removing the memory range sysctl got everything working beautifully. > I'm on my wireless LAN as we speak. I don't have the machine running yet, so I'm not sure what you're talking about in the last paragraph. Can you clarify what other sysctls you used? > Now, if only someone would crank out a BCM440x driver... ;-). Read what I wrote below: >> Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card. See >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html >> for more details. Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page, >> http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html, which >> I haven't read yet. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --EWehNWXqjd1oOl26 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/H384IubykFB6QiMRAodvAKCAPaFgE304H7Z31YXN1q9MDWTEjwCeO+fb kKV9tbeSkwYpqNJ0hJ3kyHI= =9ie6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EWehNWXqjd1oOl26--
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