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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
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Sean O'Connell                                Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU
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