Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:27:41 PDT From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TI1225 + ORINOCO aka WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 11Mb Message-ID: <200005311827.LAA06015@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 10:22:28 PDT." <200005311722.KAA14111@whistle.com>
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Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> 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
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