Fwd: Toshiba Cardbus

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Rollin <[email protected]>
Date: 28-Mar-2007 04:00
Subject: Re: Toshiba Cardbus
To: "Craig St. Jean" <[email protected]>


On 28/03/07, Craig St. Jean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Success!! My road to getting things working was not easy though. I
> actually tried installing Gentoo to see if that worked, however it
> did not. After booting Gentoo with pci=assign-busses (or something like
> that), it was able to show me the correct subordinate value via lspci
> (was previously 7, should have been 9).
>
> Excited after seeing that, I quickly reinstalled FreeBSD to try to fix
> the problem. Going through dmesg one can see that my cardbus is on pci
> bus 5 (pcib5). I then did a "pciconf -l | grep pcib5" and saw that the
> bus is actually pci0:30:0. Googling has shown me that to change the
> subordinate value, you use hex value 0x1a.
>
> Then the magic: pciconf -wb pci0:30:0 0x1a 9
> FreeBSD proceeded to load up the Atheros drivers and life is once again
> happy!
>

Whoa. I think I would rather use DDT as the command processor than
figure that little lot out ;-)

Jeff

--
Q: What will happen in the Aftermath?

A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath.

http://latedeveloper.org.uk


-- 
Q: What will happen in the Aftermath?

A: Impossible to tell, since we're still in the Beforemath.

http://latedeveloper.org.uk
_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"