Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:43:38 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan vs. wi-driver Message-ID: <200009240243.TAA16209@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:43:38 %2B0200." <20000924004338.B37311@cage.tse-online.de>
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Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> wrote:
> The pccardd recognizes the wavelan card and binds it (as expected)
> to the the wi driver.
[ ... ]
> Bringing up the interface with ifconfig results in
> "wi0: tx buffer allocation failed" messages.
If you're seeing this, the driver initialization is failing.
> This smells like kern/17821.
>
> I was able to reproduce the behaviour with an ELSA AirLancer MC-11
> from my "test pool", too.
I'd guess that the problem is related to the PCMCIA chipset used in
the Vaio, as the bug report talks about a Vaio, too (although a
different model). The wavelan card works fine in my Dell laptop
(4.0-STABLE and 4.1-RELEASE), and I'm sure that it works in other
laptops, too.
> Any hints?
It probably won't help, but you could post a verbose dmesg, as well
as the bootup console messages (many of which are NOT placed into dmesg
or /var/log/messages). Capturing the console messages can be tricky, as
some programs run at bootup (pccardc in particular) print important
messages to stdout, which aren't captured in /var/log/messages or
dmesg. If your syscons scrollback (SC_HISTORY_SIZE) is set large
enough, and you are using moused, you can scroll back and use the mouse
cut-and-paste to copy the console messages.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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