Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:33:34 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>, "Ted J. Stein" <tstein@seas.upenn.edu>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c589 woes w/ Dell (was: Dell Laptops and 3com CardBus Cards) Message-ID: <3A76D0BE.180726D1@babbleon.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101292157240.32176-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> <3A7658F0.85CE69D3@babbleon.org>
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I may have been over-hasty here. I had not been planning to post about the difficulties 'til I could run some more tests and be sure of my facts, but then I saw the other post about the 3c589 and decided I ought to jump in. Well, sure enough, I got the "deadly reboot" lockup last night a couple hours after I posted, and I *didn't* have the card in. I *had* had the card in earlier, but I remembered to pop it out before rebooting and I still got the hard system freeze. I've now enabled apm support, and aliased both "halt" and "reboot" to "shutdown -p now", since it's only warm reboots that have ever caused trouble, but I'm no longer completely confident that the freeze is connected with the 3com card. The Babbler wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > > Word from others is that cardbus will work if youre will to be a little > > bleeding edge and follow the -current distro. otherwise, grab a 3com > > 3c589, which according to the freebsd hcl will work. Other options > > include Redhat, which supports my 3com cardbus 3ccfe575bt. > > I have a 3com 3c589, and it "mostly" works, but if I do a soft reboot > from FreeBSD without popping out the card, the computer freezes on > reboot, so there's still some problem with it. (I'm using straight > 4.2-RELEASE, no fancy stuff for me.) > > However, as long as I remember to pop it out whenever I reboot, it's ok. > > (Note that the lookup has to do with something the FreeBSD fails to do > on _shutdown_. The lockup (which is a hard lockup--have to power down > to unwedge it) happens if FreeBSD shuts down and I start up FreeBSD *or* > Linux, and doesn't happen if I shutdown Linux and then start up FreeBSD. > > It just happens if I don't power off the computer and/or pop out the > card, so I think it's failing to release something on the card itself. > > > > > Bri > > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ted J. Stein wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > First, let me extend my sincerest apologies for my earlier message > > > containing the word "subscribe". It's been at least three years since I've > > > participated in any of the FreeBSD mailing lists (let alone worked with > > > Majordomo at all), and I jumped the gun. > > > That being said, I was wondering if anyone has gotten FreeBSD to install > > > and run on a Dell Inspiron 5000. I include the all-important installation > > > process since other operating systems have failed during install. More > > > importantly, I have a 3com FEM656T - a CardBus card. I've been informed that > > > this will not work with the FreeBSD kernel. So, if FreeBSD will install, I'd > > > be more than willing to purchase a PCMCIA Ethernet card that would cooperate > > > with FreeBSD. Any suggestions as to what cards are best supported (and > > > cheapest)? Any information on either subjects is greatly appreciated. Please > > > note: the computer is an Inspiron 5000, _not_ a 5000e. > > > > > > Apologies and many thanks, > > > > > > Ted Stein > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > -- > "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org > Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. > Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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