Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:32:53 +0100 From: David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, imp@FreeBSD.org, nate@yogotech.com Cc: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, robert bowen <robert@braingarage.com> Subject: Re: kern/18118 and kern/9030 on silly PCIC controllers Message-ID: <E12iYru-000C9M-00@dialup-janus.css.qmw.ac.uk>
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Nate (no longer really responsible although his EMail address is still in the code!) advised me to send a query to the "mobile" list (which I did while the PR kern/18118 was already submitted) and both: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> and robert bowen <robert@braingarage.com> advised me in EMails I downloaded this morning how to do it by using device pcic0 at isa? in the configuration file instead of the default version. Sean also advised appending: machdep.pccard.pcic_irq="0" to "/boot/loader.conf". Having done these, and rebuilt the kernel, things now work and PCCards are recognised and started successfully without having to patch the code at all. Thanks a lot, all of you. I can now proceed with putting FreeBSD 4.0 on my various personal and work laptops, all of which get used at various times for network monitoring, &c, so I'm grateful I can get on with this upgrade over the extended weekend. Just one question with this fix - does it stop cards being accessed as PCCard cards in 32-bit mode because they are seen as being on the 16-bit ISA bus or does it only affect the PCIC(s) themselves? (One of my 100Mbit Ethernet cards is a CardBus card.) I don't want to sound ungrateful, but this hassle for all of us could have been avoided by a little more documentation of the configuration line in the LINT configuration file, which I always read because it tends to document all sorts of flags, &c, for the configuration options. I had (of course) already consulted the other documentation (man pages, &c) that I could find and found nothing useful (for this problem!). It would also be nice if the "fix" could be documented in the PR database along with the closures of both PRs. Thanks again for all your help. Generally I find FreeBSD very reliable and stable (which is why I use it!) and we often find that problems other people have at work with Linux are solved by references to the FreeBSD documentation! However, this time, and with a rather involved bit of code to read, the source wasn't quite enough for a rapid fix. -- David Pick D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk a.k.a. Hostmaster@qmw.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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