Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:15:35 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: FreeBSD-Mobile <FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Xircom Ceditcard Ethernet Message-ID: <20010102111535.D7988@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101021108350.7712-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:09:46AM -0500 References: <200101021547.f02FlxJ26815@ptavv.es.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101021108350.7712-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Chris BeHanna stated: : On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kevin Oberman wrote: : : > Hmmm. That's odd. : > : > Aside from the obvious clearing after a hang, the watchdog timer is : > the driver's way of turning the card on in the first place. Nothing : > should happen, even the turning of of the link LED, until after the : > reset. Only then should you see the link and see any traffic. : > : > One problem is that the card tries to start running before it is : > configured. This may be what you are seeing. If so, try adding : > pccardd_flags="-z" to rc.conf. That will pause your startup until the : > card is ready to go. : : The other thing it will do is allow you to have all of your NFS : mounts in place before you log in (for the case of a laptop, like : mine, that mounts my home directory from a server). : : -z is Good Food. But should he be using pccard_ifconfig and not ifconfig_xe0 ? I would think this would obviate the need for -z :) I do worry about the watchdog error being a sign of an irq conflict. S -- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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