From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 18 15:44:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF1837B401 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20714.mail.yahoo.com (web20714.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAB8443F93 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unexpectedvalue@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030718224411.66511.qmail@web20714.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.179.159.103] by web20714.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:44:11 PDT Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:44:11 -0700 (PDT) From: True Entropy To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PC cards on vaio PCG-705 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:44:12 -0000 I am having problems getting 802.11b and ethernet PC cards to work on vaio pcg-705. It looks like that cards can be set up and controlled from the machine, and sometimes they can transmit, but data never gets in. This could obviously be an IRQ problem, but it doesn't seem so as dmesg does not complain. As I have no means of communicating with the autistic laptop, no dmesg is included :-) Short history of release behaviour (all stable major releases): 4.4, 4.7 and 4.8 will not boot - spontaneous reboot shortly after loading kernel from CD. 5.0 and 5.1 boot and install fine. OLDCARD on 5.1 cannot be compiled at all, there are unresolved globals. OLDCARD compiles fine on 5.0. 5.1 (NEWCARD): Sees and sets up NETGEAR MA401 (wi driver), including wep password. However, the card status never gets to "associated". The AP sees the card, though. Also recognises D-Link DFE-690TXD (rl driver). The card transmits to the point where other machines on the network properly top ARP for it (ie. the card's MAC appears with correct IP in other's ARP tables.) However, nothing comes back. 5.0 (OLDCARD) Same as above for MA401, but has "watchdog timeout" complaints in addition. I never got it to see DFE-690TXD (pccardd complains about "(null)" pccard ID). 5.0 NEWCARD - same as 5.1 NEWCARD. I tried (I think) all stuff I saw on maillists, usenet and assorted websites, about pccard.conf, kernel options, etc., although not in all possible combinations. Hopefully someone can save me days of recomplilations. thanks, ===== . end . (spam starts here) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com