Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 16:46:32 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cardbus controller status request / notebook update Message-ID: <199712122346.QAA28316@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199712122329.PAA24176@crab.whistle.com> References: <199712122238.PAA27990@mt.sri.com> <199712122329.PAA24176@crab.whistle.com>
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> | > However, I'm still having trouble > | > with the code in that interrupts don't seem to be working in that I > | > keep getting device timeouts for the ethernet (this happens with PAO and > | > current). > | > | Hmmm... You're saying the interrupts are correctly registered with the > | devices (you get correct probe information), but the interrupts are > | getting lost? > > Yes this is appears to be my problem. The probe finds the card, attaches > the driver (ed). When I do an ifconfig I see the ether address but > get a device timeout during pine. Looking on various web pages from TI in > which they have an explanation of different interrupt methods. They talk > about a bit that needs to be twitled in order to enable ISA mode interrupts > to happen. So it is my best guess that interrupts are not happening since > I had the same problem when I had and interrupts problem on my laptop with > TI1130. Ahh, this is only for the TI1130? I didnt' realize that this even worked with FreeBSD w/out the PAO patches. > I guess my question is, that when booting -v with a 6832 what does the > probe return for the port of the 6832? On my card it returned 0. What do you mean? The ISA emulation port? Ted would be the guy to know what it normally says. > Then > when it set the emulation to work at port 0, it didn't work. My setup is > a bit odd. I have a 6832 eval card that goes into a PCI slot. A cable > goes from this card to an ISA card to trigger ISA interrupts. Kind-of neat. Sounds pretty cool. > Unfortunately I didn't get any programming doc's with this card so I need > to ask for them. I have a belief that some laptop BIOS's have the code > to set this stuff up so old drivers work with the new chip. Since, I'm > just using a standard old PC my BIOS doesn't touch it. ;( Nate
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