Re: pccard slot not working properly

Thanks, didn't help the onboard card (for which I found drivers
through another message), nor did it reall change much in the results
of the dmesg. I'll try it with a PCMCIA card when I get home.

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton

On 10/5/06, Vince <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > Alright, attached at the end is the (extremely large) results of your
> > request. As I said in a previous reply, I didn't know what was the
> > required information. Anyway, I'm getting this sooner than later, as
> > the Intel drivers on Gentoo were nonfunctional, and I find, when
> > things are broken, I'd rather be in BSD than Linux.
> >
>
> Purely on the basis its a toshiba, have you tried adding
> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
> to /boot/loader.conf ?
>
> (my old 8100 needs this for its pcmcia to work although the symptoms
> don't quite match and i seem to remember another tecra i had needed this
> also.)
>
> Vince
>
> > Thanks,
> > -Jim Stapleton
> >
> >
> >
> > dmesg output
> >
>
> <snipped>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/3/06, M. Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I hate to sound like Bill Paul, but can you provide a little more
> >> information?  Like what card is this?  Cardbus or PC Card?
> >>
> >> I'd boot -v and also turn on the following tunables:
> >>         hw.cbb.debug=1
> >>         hw.pccard.cis_debug=1
> >>         hw.pccard.debug=1
> >>         hw.cardbus.cis_debug=1
> >>         hw.cardbus.debug=1
> >> in /boot/loader.conf and post the dmesg here (or a pointer to it), in
> >> addition to cc'ing me.  My wife is expecting any day now, so I might
> >> suddenly disappear for a couple of weeks.  There are others here that
> >> can help you out, however, if you post this basic information.
> >>
> >> Warner
> >>
> >> In message: <[email protected]>
> >>             "Jim Stapleton" <[email protected]> writes:
> >> : I have a pccard wireless NIC, and I know it comes up and runs in
> >> : Knoppix, but in FreeBSD, it is troubled. It is reported to work on one
> >> : website, using NDIS, but I don't get far enough to make use of it.
> >> : After some testing, I suspect it's the notebook not recognizing the
> >> : pccard slot.
> >> :
> >> : - The cards diagnostic light blinks green and then goes off when
> >> inserted
> >> : - The card information does not appear in dmesg after insertion
> >> : - The card appears to work fine in knoppix
> >> : - I'll have a friend with some spare pccards come over tomorrow - her
> >> : cards work on her BSD box just fine, just to verify if it's card or
> >> : card controller.
> >> :
> >> : My question, the system is a Toshiba Satellite A105-4001. It is an
> >> : i850/ICH7 based machine. What's the best way to see what the pccard
> >> : device is, and figure out how to get it working?
> >> :
> >> : My main test that leaves me suspicious, I booted the machine with the
> >> : card and ran the following commands:
> >> : $ ls /dev > IL-dev
> >> : $ dmesg > IL-dmesg
> >> : $ pciconf > IL-pciconf
> >> :
> >> : Next, I rebooted it without the card:
> >> : $ ls /dev > I-dev
> >> : $ dmesg > I-dmesg
> >> : $ pciconf > I-pciconf
> >> :
> >> : Next I diff'ed the IL files with their matching I files, the only
> >> : difference that popped up with dmesg with the 'Timecounter "TSC"
> >> : frequency [...]. entry, which to my knowledge, should not be related
> >> : to the problem at all.
> >> :
> >> : Any suggestions?
> >> :
> >> : Thanks,
> >> : -Jim Stapleton
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