On Wednesday, 30 June 1999 at 22:56:43 -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > I am attempting to configure a couple of pccards on a DELL Inspiron 3500 > running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Neither card works: > > 1) The first card is some sort of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. It seems > to be called a "DELL Margi". Whenever the card is inserted and > pccardd is running, the entire system hangs so hard that console > I/O no longer works. Even ctl-alt-del is ignored. The power > button is ignored. I have to turn the machine off by poking a > special hidden recessed button on the side with a paper clip. > > I don't expect to find a FreeBSD driver for this card, but I would > prefer that having it physically installed didn't hang the system.
Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet board on 9, it works, but only by putting pccardd on irq 5, which doesn't really work. If I pull the Ethernet card, the whole machine hangs up when I try to access the net, presumably because pccardd hasn't found out about it. > 2) The second card is a "DELL 10/100 LAN+56K Modem CardBus by 3Com". > A label on the back of the card says "Model 3CCFEM656". > > The command "pccardc dumpcis" reports: > > Configuration data for card in slot 1 > Tuple #1, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0 > > I assume that pccardd cannot recognize and configure cards without > configuration data. Is this card broken in some sense? Can anyone > recommend a driver? I've seen this kind of problem on my Latitude laptop after running Microsoft. It seems that Microsoft sets the board state in such a way that a simple reboot doesn't reset it, and this is the result. If I power down the machine and then boot it with FreeBSD, I don't have any problems. Have you tried that? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
