Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:03:28 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, W Alexander Hagen <aligzanduh@yahoo.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd REL_ENG 4.3 p28 freezes every 30 minutes. Message-ID: <nospam-1016503408.34818@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20020318194421.Y45592-100000@patrocles.silby.com> of Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:45:39 CST References: <20020318194421.Y45592-100000@patrocles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
| On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Greg Black wrote:
|
| > Josef Karthauser wrote:
| >
| > | 4.3 is two whole major releases ago. You should be running 4.5, which
| > | you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, or the tag
| > | RELENG_4 if you wish to be at the head of developments on the -stable
| > | branch.
| >
| > This is not wise advice. There are lots of circumstances where
| > 4.3 is perfectly fine and can be shown to work while 4.4 and 4.5
| > are broken. I have had to revert to 4.3 on several machines
| > after attempting unsuccessfully to run 4.4 and 4.5 (and current,
| > for that matter).
|
| Which PRs describe the problems encountered?
I have not submitted a PR yet. I have raised the problems on
the FreeBSD mailing lists several times since 4.4-RELEASE and
have had some correspondence with Warner Losh and Greg Lehey in
vain attempts to establish some basis for working towards a
solution.
In essence, I have laptops that work fine with PCMCIA cards
under 4.3 but which don't recognise them at all under later
releases (including 4.4, 4.5 and current as of a few weeks
ago). The symptoms, as reported several times, are:
* Failure to boot without the following magic in
/boot/loader.conf:
hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
hw.pcic.irq="0"
* Boot message that says:
pccard: card inserted, slot 0
pcic0: Static bug detected, ignoring hardware.
These messages are printed whether or not there is a card
in the slot.
* As a result of the previous item, naturally the PCMCIA
cards don't work when inserted.
The same machines, when running 4.3-RELEASE, drive my PCMCIA
cards just fine.
I have CURRENT on one of these boxes and could CVS update it for
further tests if somebody can suggest where to start looking.
If it would really help to submit a PR at this point, I suppose
I could do that. It seems to me that it would be more useful to
learn a bit more first.
Greg
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