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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:58:08 -0700
From:      "Greg Smith" <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com>
To:        "Wayne Pascoe" <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Inserting Orinoco Silver wireless card locks machine
Message-ID:  <200106231658080240.01CEEE3E@smtp.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <8666dm21oy.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk>
References:  <8666dm21oy.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk>

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Wayne,

I don't know for sure about your model, but in general the phrases
"Sony Vaio" and "polling mode" don't go well together.

Try giving pcic0 an IRQ.

HTH,

Greg

-----Original Message-----

>Hi all,
>
>I am having a problem with a Lucent Orinoco silver pcmcia card. I am
>using a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600HEK. Every time I plug this type of card
>(I've tried 2 of them) into my machine, the machine locks solid. I
>have to power off and back on. If I have the card in when I boot up,
>the machine will not boot. 
>
>I have seen the same behaviour with a Dell wireless card.
>
>At boot time, the lines I get in my log about pcic devices are as
>follows: 
>
>Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic-pci0: <Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus
Bridge>
>at device 12.0 on pci0
>Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic0: <Intel i82365> at port 0x3e0 iomem
>0xd0000 on isa0
>Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic0: Polling mode
>Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version>
on
>pcic0
>
>I am not getting any messages when I plug the card in at all, just a
>hard lock.
>
>I had heard that these cards were fairly well supported, so I don't
>know if it is a clash between my card and the laptop, or what. Any
>help resolving this would be much appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- 
>- Wayne Pascoe 
>E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk
>Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668
>Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675
>
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