From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 6 13:56:07 2004 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 162D616A4CE for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:56:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0CB743D3F for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:56:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail 18586 invoked by uid 65534); 6 Feb 2004 21:56:03 -0000 Received: from 22.138.186.195.dial.bluewin.ch (EHLO gmx.at) (195.186.138.22) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 06 Feb 2004 22:56:03 +0100 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <40240D6D.3000109@gmx.at> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:55:57 +0100 From: lars User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040206 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200402051913.i15JDEH6030266@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200402051913.i15JDEH6030266@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cisco mini-PCI cards with the latest firmware 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, 06 Feb 2004 21:56:07 -0000 Doug Ambrisko wrote: > lars writes: > | Dear all, > | > | My Cisco Aironet MiniPCI card in a Thinkpad R40 doesn't work at all. > | When I boot from the 5.2.1 iso it hangs while detecting the card. > | > | Does this mean it should work now? > > It it normal to hang for a little bit. Maybe 10s. Now to make it > work you need an older version of firmware and the driver in -current > or delete the code in /sys/dev/an/if_an.c between the lines that > says "HACK". > > What you could do it remove the card from behind one of the doors > on the bottom of your laptop boot and then install FreeBSD including > the sources for sys. Then recompile with the above change. Flash > the firmware via Window. Then it should work. > > This assumes that your laptop is okay and not messing up system resources. > > Doug A. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Dear Doug, Following the instructions posted on the net and in this list, I downgraded my firmware and also the NDIS drivers (go to cisco.com, dl the firmware and drivers, install with ACU tool, resp. hardware manager, reboot etc.). With set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" set hw.cbb.memory_range="0x20000000" entered at bootup or written to /boot/loader.conf my TP R40 now boots 5-2-RELEASE-p2 without lockup. The card can now be brought up. I haven't gotten around to testing the card under load yet though, I will post any results on this list. Thanks for the help, I almost gave up on FreeBSD on my laptop after 4.x. Now I'm a happy user again. Kind regards, Lars.