From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 31 11:27:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0415737B55E for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E7816C2; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.sr.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.0) with ESMTP id LAA06015; Wed, 31 May 2000 11:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005311827.LAA06015@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: Warner Losh , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TI1225 + ORINOCO aka WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 11Mb Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 10:22:28 PDT." <200005311722.KAA14111@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:27:41 PDT From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Like Warner has mentioned your TI chip is not getting intiallized. Most > desktop BIOS don't do this most laptops do. However, I have a ThinkPad > i1482 at home (for the wife running Windows) and it doesn't initialize > the TI 1410 in a sane way. That is it doesn't allocate and PCI memory I appreciate all this. However, I'm not sure if everyone understands that I'm *NOT* the person having severe problems with the TI 1225. My laptop w/TI 1225 is 95% working (and the other 5% doesn't really bother me); my laptop works well with an IEEE 802.11 WaveLan card, as well as an Accton 2216 10BT card. The only problems I have are (1) the PCMCIA slot often stops responding after several remove/inserts, and (2) removing/inserting a compact flash card (unmounted) has an high probability of causing a panic. However, as I've mentioned, I'm not using the latest TI 1225 code, and I hope to do so RSN. I'm just trying to understand what works and what doesn't, so that I can update my "Using FreeBSD with WaveLan" document. From my perspective, all this is weird, as my laptop has a TI 1225, but I can use the PCMCIA slot(s), whereas others with a desktop TI 1225 have problems and are unable to get it working. If I understand Warner correctly, the old FreeBSD code did not properly handle the TI 1225 in a desktop because the TI was in a reset state, whereas my laptop's BIOS somehow initialized the TI into a state that FreeBSD could handle. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message