I have a DLink DWL650 wireless card, on a P90, and I'm desesperately trying to get it working on a FreeBSD 4.7 system.
I wanted to setup it on a FreeBSD 4.7, but the box freezes after printing: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c So I looked on the net, and added the following lines to my /boot/loader.conf file: hw.pcic.irq="0" hw.pcic.intr_path="1" Now, FreeBSD boots very well, all others network cards are working properly (1 NE2000 ISA card and 1 Realtek PCI card), but I always get the following line just after pccardd setups the card: wi0: watchdog timeout. I looked on the web and in various man pages, and found a lot of references (solutions?) to the following variables (to define in /boot/loader.conf): hw.pcic.ignore_function_1: 0 to enabled function 1 - 1 to disable function 1 hw.pcic.init_routing: 1 to force to route via PCI interrupt - 0 default hw.pcic.intr_path: 1 to route via ISA - 2 to route via PCI hw.pcic.irq: override the IRQ to use for ISA interrupt routing - 0 to use polling mode hw.pcic.ignore_pci: no documentation found about this one, but seems to fully disable PCI probing machdep.pccard.pcic_irq: override the IRQ normally assigned to a PCCard controler - 0 to use polling mode. Finally, some IRQs settings can also be applied through pccardd -i, or in /etc/pccard.conf. I think my problem is due to an IRQ conflict. Theoretically, from what I see with various tools (by looking at /proc informations using Linux, ...) it seems that IRQs 3, 5 and 12 are free on the box. My questions are: - How does all those PCI/ISA/IRQ settings interact all together ? - How to setup those to have a properly working wireless card? - Else,is it possible to indicate me the appropriated mailing list /person where I can get an answer? With an /boot/loader.conf as following: userconfig_script_load="YES" hw.pcic.intr_path="1" hw.pcic.irq="0" and the line pccardd_flags=" -i 12" in /etc/rc.conf, Here's what I get during the boot (dmesg output): Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.72-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x526 Stepping = 6 Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8> real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) config> di sio1 config> di sio0 config> di ppc0 config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di cs0 config> di bt0 config> di aic0 config> di aha0 config> di adv0 config> en ed0 config> po ed0 0x340 config> ir ed0 11 config> iom ed0 0xd8000 config> f ed0 0 config> q avail memory = 43851776 (42824K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc050f000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc050f09c. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 isab0: <Intel 82371FB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xfffbfc00-0xfffbfcff irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:00:1c:db:cf:0e miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pcic0: <Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 0 at device 14.0 on pci0 pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88000000 pcic0: Polling mode pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0 orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xed000-0xedfff on isa0 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0 ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> ed0 at port 0x340-0x35f iomem 0xd8000 irq 11 drq 0 on isa0 ed0: address 08:00:00:51:69:44, type NE2000 (16 bit) ad0: 58644MB <IC35L060AVER07-0> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO ad2: 38166MB <ST340016A> [77545/16/63] at ata1-master BIOSPIO acd0: CDROM <LTN301> at ata1-slave BIOSPIO Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a pccard: card inserted, slot 0 wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 12 slot 0 on pccard0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:5c:21:3c wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873 wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.05 wi0: watchdog timeout wi0: watchdog timeout also, pccardd prints me the following a bit later: freebsd pccardd[41]: wi0: D (Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card) inserted. freebsd pccardd[41]: pccardd started Don't forget I must conserve the following settings to boot properly: (except if you have another solution...;) hw.pcic.irq="0" hw.pcic.intr_path="1" Thanks in advance To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message