Re: ToPIC95B cardbus on old laptop

Andrew Belashov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization ORIS
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Hello, Tijl!

Tijl Coosemans wrote:
| On Thursday 02 September 2004 08:04, Andrew Belashov wrote:
|
|>Tijl Coosemans wrote:
|>| I'm having problems to get my Xircom card working. It doesn't
|>| seem to be able to allocate mem. I think in 4-stable it used
|>| 0xd1000. Anyway, I've set the syctl variabe hw.xe.debug to 2 and
|>| included the output below. The first thing I noticed was that it
|>| seems to think it's a RealPort card while this certainly isn't
|>| the case.
|>|
|>| There are a couple messages related to this in the archives, even
|>|  a patch, but the code has changed since then and it no longer
|>| applies.
|>|
|>| I'm using an OLDCARD kernel by the way. (NEWCARD doesn't seem to
|>| work with this ToPIC95B).
|>
|>Try NEWCARD with patch from PR kern/69127:
|><http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=69127>
|>
|>Boot verbosely ("boot -v" at loader prompt).
|>
|>Before inserting card do following:
|># sysctl hw.cbb.debug=1
|># sysctl hw.pccard.debug=1
|># sysctl hw.pccard.cis_debug=1
|># sysctl hw.cardbus.debug=1
|># sysctl hw.cardbus.cis_debug=1
|>
|>Post dmesg into maillist.
|
|
| As I briefly mentioned, NEWCARD doesn't work for me, so I didn't
| actually get any info from inserting the card. However, I figured you
| might still be interested in the dmesg so here it is.
|
| I also found a message in the archives with apparently exactly the
| same problem. It was fixed by enabling acpi, which this laptop
| unfortunately does not support.
|
| http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026001.html
|
| Also, when I put this laptop in a docking station, there's a LOR when
| probing the extra slots (cbb2) and the kernel crashes with a page
| fault. Let me know if you want a dmesg of that.

For NEWCARD in additional to first patch:

Try following at boot prompt:

set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"



Or try patch from PR/66848 <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66848>


With best regards,
Andrew Belashow.
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