Re: Broken support for 3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL?

Jens Andre Griepentrog <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:32:47 -0600 (MDT)
>  "M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  In message: <[email protected]>
>              Chris Buechler <[email protected]> writes:
>  : On 5/17/05, Jens Andre Griepentrog <[email protected]> wrote:
>  : > 
>  : >   Hello,
>  : > 
>  : >   I have upgraded my Compaq Armada 1750 notebook to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
>  : >   In contrast to the old 5.1-RELEASE, now the support for my 3Com 3c575C
>  : >   Fast Etherlink XL cardbus network device seems to be broken.
>  : >   It will not be initialized as you can see in the dmesg output below:
>  : > 
>  : <snip>
>  : > uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x2000-0x201f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0
>  : <snip>
>  : > xl0: <3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1100-0x117f mem 0x88000000-0x8800007f,0x88000080-0x880000ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
>  : 
>  : 
>  : My 3c575C (xl) works fine on 5.4.  My first guess would be the USB and
>  : NIC using the same IRQ is causing some problems.
>  
>  No.  That's not the problem.  It is more likely a resource problem for
>  memory...
>  
>  Warner
>  

It seems to me that FreeBSD-5.4 has not only problems
with the 3c575C card attached to my Compaq Armada 1750.
I also tried out a D-Link DFE-690TXD network card on this
notebook, again without success. At work both cards work
fine on an Acer TravelMate 630 notebook and FreeBSD-5.4!

Best regards,
Jens A. Griepentrog
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