Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Watchdog Timeouts

Please, surely there must be ANYONE who knows something about this. Which
mail-list can I also address to try t solve this?

> Since FreeBSD 4.5, I've been using a Toshiba Satellite 320 CDT laptop with
> a Xircom Realport REM56G PCMCIA networkcard (and modem). While not easy, I
> got it to work under 4.5, and later 4.6 by setting it to PCIC-complaint
> under the BIOS (instead of 16bit mode), using IRC 10 and putting
> machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd0000 in sysctl.conf. I always got a few
Watchdog
> timeouts on starting up and when the card had to autonegoiate the media,
but
> it worked.
>
> Now, I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.7, and the card has stopped working :-( Tried
> everything in the book (I think) to get it working again, but to no avail.
> It doesn't crash FreeBSD anymore like when for using 16bit PCCARD-mode in
> the BIOS and a shared IRQ 11, however it just doesn't to work. The
> connection LED goes on, but the receive LED never blinks, EVER. After a
few
> second, a watchdog timeout occurs and the connections LED goes out and on
> again.
>
> I did notice a difference between 4.5 / 4.6 and 4.7. Just before the
pccard
> deamon starts, I would see the machdep.pccard.mem_start value changing
from
> something like 65360 to 85xxx. Later on I would see it again but from
85xxx
> to 85xxx (same value twice), rpobably from the entry I put in the
> sysctl.conf (machdep.pccard.mem_start=0xd4000).
> It doesn't anymore, just says the 8xxxx to 8xxxx at the end...
>
> Any idea's / suggestions? My guess is, that everything is OK (no IRC
> confilicts etc) , except for the place in memory that is used for the
> driver...
>
> Kind Regards,
> Sander Holthaus


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