Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:48:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Varju <alex@varju.bc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: alex@varju.bc.ca Subject: pccard problem with compaq armada e500 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103172318440.3509-100000@login.webct.com>
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Hi there, I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Compaq Armada e500, and have run into a bit of a snag. I've done a little bit of searching, and found somebody else who seems to have had the same problem several months ago, with no solution found: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2335+4178+/usr/local/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-mobile/20001119.freebsd-mobile To summarize, I have a 3Com 3C574B card which hangs the laptop when I insert it (or boot with it inserted). I installed 4.2-RELEASE from CD, and started to play from there. I came up with some hair-brained plan to try enabling the kernel debugging code, with the hopes that maybe I could figure out what is supposed to be going on .. I don't actually have any clue what I would do once I was into the debugger, but I thought it might be interesting to learn. After recompiling the release source to include 'option DDB', I rebooted and suddenly everything worked. I figured that this was rather strange, but decided to take advantage of my suddenly functional network connection and install a -STABLE snapshot from earlier this month (march 3), as well as some packages. After doing all this, I rebooted with the -STABLE build of the kernel (DDB enabled), and again the pc card wouldn't work. I backed out to the -RELEASE kernel that I compiled, and stuff resumed functioning. From my perspective, this seems rather strange. I have a machine that is working, but I'm not comfortable with the fact that I can't make any changes to it without risking breaking things. I'm completely willing to put my share of work into trying to resolve this, but I don't have any clue where to start looking. Can somebody give me some advice or suggestions here? Thanks, Alex -- alex varju <alex@varju.bc.ca> just a guy webct canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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