Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 00:05:03 +0200 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: bel@orel.ru Subject: Re: ToPIC95B cardbus on old laptop Message-ID: <200409040005.03105.tijl@ulyssis.org> In-Reply-To: <41384C69.2000700@orel.ru> References: <200409011440.58934.tijl@ulyssis.org> <200409021533.10309.tijl@ulyssis.org> <41384C69.2000700@orel.ru>
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Hello Andrew, On Friday 03 September 2004 12:50, Andrew Belashov wrote: > Tijl Coosemans wrote: > | On Thursday 02 September 2004 08:04, Andrew Belashov wrote: > |>Tijl Coosemans wrote: > |>| I'm having problems to get my Xircom card working. It doesn't > |>| seem to be able to allocate mem. I think in 4-stable it used > |>| 0xd1000. Anyway, I've set the syctl variabe hw.xe.debug to 2 > |>| and included the output below. The first thing I noticed was > |>| that it seems to think it's a RealPort card while this > |>| certainly isn't the case. > |>| > |>| There are a couple messages related to this in the archives, > |>| even a patch, but the code has changed since then and it no > |>| longer applies. > |>| > |>| I'm using an OLDCARD kernel by the way. (NEWCARD doesn't seem > |>| to work with this ToPIC95B). > |> > |>Try NEWCARD with patch from PR kern/69127: > |><http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=69127>; > |> > |>Boot verbosely ("boot -v" at loader prompt). > |> > |>Before inserting card do following: > |># sysctl hw.cbb.debug=1 > |># sysctl hw.pccard.debug=1 > |># sysctl hw.pccard.cis_debug=1 > |># sysctl hw.cardbus.debug=1 > |># sysctl hw.cardbus.cis_debug=1 > |> > |>Post dmesg into maillist. > | > | As I briefly mentioned, NEWCARD doesn't work for me, so I didn't > | actually get any info from inserting the card. However, I figured > | you might still be interested in the dmesg so here it is. > | > | I also found a message in the archives with apparently exactly > | the same problem. It was fixed by enabling acpi, which this > | laptop unfortunately does not support. > | > | http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026 > |001.html > | > | Also, when I put this laptop in a docking station, there's a LOR > | when probing the extra slots (cbb2) and the kernel crashes with a > | page fault. Let me know if you want a dmesg of that. > > For NEWCARD in additional to first patch: > > Try following at boot prompt: > > set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" This didn't do anything, and I think it has been removed from the code a while ago. > Or try patch from PR/66848 > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66848>; This patch isn't really up to date, but I figured out where to put all the pieces and lo and behold, it worked! Congratulations! To get my Xircom card working I also needed the the exca.c patch you mentioned. Without it, the system completely locked up when I inserted the card and crashed when I removed it again. Many many thanks! Tijl
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