Re: Thinkpad 600E and 5.2

Gary Kline <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:57:39PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:32:15 -0700
> > From: Gary Kline <[email protected]>
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:29:22AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > From: "Peter Sandilands" <[email protected]>
> > > > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:34:30 +1000
> > > > 
> > 	[ ... ]
> > 
> > > 
> > > I just fired up my 600E. It's running 5.2-BETA from Dec. of last year.
> > > Something my have broken since then, but I get NEWCARD to work with the
> > > following in /boot/loader.conf: hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"
> > > hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"
> > > 
> > > My kernel config is:
> > > device	  cbb
> > > device	  pccard
> > > device	  cardbus
> > > 
> > > It was not happy with ACPI, so I am running APM.
> > > 
> > > My Xircom card seems quite happy there.
> > 
> > 
> > 	A couple of questons.  First, we are prob'ly running a similar
> > 	5.2; none of the files in my KERNEL conf directory is older
> > 	that early Dec., '03.  Where is the NEWCARD file?  Should my
> > 	Xircom be recognized once I rebuild the GENERIC kernel?  
> > 	I see that what you have as ^define targets and nodefines in
> > 	OLDCARD.
> 
> There is no "NEWCARD" file. GENERIC is NEWCARD. The config lines I
> included result in a NEWCARD kernel. OLDCARD uses pcic and card while
> GENERIC uses cbb, cardbus, and pccard. The dmesg should contain entries
> for 2 each cbb, cardbus, and pccard devices. The actual Ethernet device
> will be way down the dmesg from the other stuff.

	Thanks for clarifying.  I'm about 45 minutes into a rebuild
	with KERCONF=GENERIC.  I should know fairly soon; will post
	further comments|queries in a few hours.

	<PERSONAL>
	when did lbl become es.net?  i worked at llnl for a few years
	and thought all the labs were .gov.  
	</PERSONAL>

	gary


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   Gary Kline     [email protected]   www.thought.org     Public service Unix

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