Re: problems with Xircom REM56G (non-Cardbus) on -CURRENT

Except for one private reply (which was helpful but unfortenately didn't
work), I got no responses... Can I do anything to make this work (compiling
with debugging options, etc etc), or am I just screwed with this card &
-CURRENT?

FWIW, the card & laptop work fine with RedHat 7.3. When I had RedHat installed
I also tried one other card, a 3Com 3C562D which also worked fine. Then
I tried to install -CURRENT using the 3Com, but sysinstall didn't recognize
the network part and then hung on the 'Probing devices...' prompt :(

I'm really out of ideas now...

--Stijn

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:37:50PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After failing the first time a few months ago, trying to install the Xircom
> card mentioned in the subject in a Dell Latitude CPxJ, today I decided to have
> another go at it, partly because of Michael Lucas's article about dualbooting
> -STABLE & -CURRENT. I still failed to get the (network part of the) card to
> work in -CURRENT though.
> 
> I installed recent snapshots of both 4.6-STABLE & 5.0-CURRENT from
> snapshots.jp.freebsd.org, as described in the article. Using 4.6 the card
> works fine, apart from some 'Code 136 unknown' messages and a 'xe0: watchdog
> timeout; resetting card' message.
> 
> Below are the relevant lines from the dmesg for -STABLE (boot -v):
> 
> pccard0: Assigning xe0: io 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 mem 0x0-0xffffffff
> xe0 at port 0x2e8-0x2ef iomem 0xd1000-0xd1fff irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0
> xe0: Forcing IRQ to 11
> xe0: Xircom CEM56, bonding version 0x55, 100Mbps capable, with modem
> xe0: DingoID = 0x444b, RevisionID = 0, VendorID = 0
> xe0: Ethernet address 00:10:a4:f1:33:37
> bpf: xe0 attached
> xe0: watchdog timeout; resetting card
> 
> The card does *not* work in -CURRENT however:
> 
> pccard0: Assigning xe0: io 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 11 mem 0x0-0xffffffff
> Jun 18 14:27:58 nbwin141 pccardd[141]: driver allocation failed for Xircom(CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56): Device not configured
> 
> I have 'device xe' in my kernel for -CURRENT (although I checked and it
> appears to be included in GENERIC also), I have made a pccard.conf that looks
> like:
> 
> irq 11
> memory 0xd1000 96k
> 
> (although I don't suspect that is the problem), I've tried with or without
> ACPI (by 'unset acpi_load' in the loader), and reinserting the card after
> boot; all of those didn't seem to matter.
> 
> After searching the archives there was mention of setting the memory address
> in /etc/sysctl.conf, but still no go.
> 
> As all other relevant information is a bit large (2 x verbose dmesg, etc.
> etc.) I do not include them here, but they are of course available on request.
> 
> uname's:
> 
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-20020616-JPSNAP #1: Tue Jun 18 13:33:01 GMT 2002
> FreeBSD 4.6-RC-20020616-JPSNAP #0: Sat Jun 15 23:37:24 GMT 2002
> 
> Can anyone help me? I'd like to help test -CURRENT with this laptop.
> 
> Please CC me, as I'm (still) not subscribed.
> 
> --Stijn
> 
> -- 
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> ]       mv $thing-to-buy $my-case
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