Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:12:46 +0100 From: "Sander Holthaus - Orange XL" <hostmaster@orangexl.com> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Watchdog Timeouts Message-ID: <001b01c27edf$e8db2d00$0200a8c0@FAMHOLTHAUS> References: <001b01c27a6f$d5643d30$0200a8c0@CP262152A> <000901c27b89$c77fe960$0200a8c0@CP262152A>
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Please, surely there must be ANYONE who knows something about this. Which mail-list can I also address to try t solve this? > Since FreeBSD 4.5, I've been using a Toshiba Satellite 320 CDT laptop with > a Xircom Realport REM56G PCMCIA networkcard (and modem). While not easy, I > got it to work under 4.5, and later 4.6 by setting it to PCIC-complaint > under the BIOS (instead of 16bit mode), using IRC 10 and putting > machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd0000 in sysctl.conf. I always got a few Watchdog > timeouts on starting up and when the card had to autonegoiate the media, but > it worked. > > Now, I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, and the card has stopped working :-( Tried > everything in the book (I think) to get it working again, but to no avail. > It doesn't crash FreeBSD anymore like when for using 16bit PCCARD-mode in > the BIOS and a shared IRQ 11, however it just doesn't to work. The > connection LED goes on, but the receive LED never blinks, EVER. After a few > second, a watchdog timeout occurs and the connections LED goes out and on > again. > > I did notice a difference between 4.5 / 4.6 and 4.7. Just before the pccard > deamon starts, I would see the machdep.pccard.mem_start value changing from > something like 65360 to 85xxx. Later on I would see it again but from 85xxx > to 85xxx (same value twice), rpobably from the entry I put in the > sysctl.conf (machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd4000). > It doesn't anymore, just says the 8xxxx to 8xxxx at the end... > > Any idea's / suggestions? My guess is, that everything is OK (no IRC > confilicts etc) , except for the place in memory that is used for the > driver... > > Kind Regards, > Sander Holthaus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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