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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:47:16 -0400
From:      Paul Halliday <transmogrify@sympatico.ca>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pcmcia copout.
Message-ID:  <38FB9474.29970528@sympatico.ca>

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Hi.

	This is a re-submission. I am still trying to do this install and from
what I 
can ascertain, none of the settings present during the install will make
this card work properly.
Again, this card has been tested and is working. When this card was
working (3.4 stable) I had to explicitly specify its irq in the
pccard.conf, if i relied on auto negotiation it would come up but not
work correctly. So now, already somewhat knowing the answer to my own
question, how can I hax0r the boot disks to achieve this end, ie.
hardcode?

Original message...

Architecture: Dell Latitude Cpi i386.
OS: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE
NIC's: 3COM Etherlink III and 3COM Megahertz 56k modem.
Media: Floppy disks / FTP via local lan to the internet.

	This box had 3.4-STABLE running without a hitch three days ago. I tried
to cvsup it to 4.0-STABLE
and for some reason while building, i decided to use the -k flag on make
installworld :( . After I finally got it running again I made some
backups i wiped the whole system clean. 

	So with my shiny new install disks, the setup was goin fine, the card
inits and the installation begins. However within a meg or two of
transfer it dies. 

What I have tried:

1) all possible irq/memory configurations within sysinstalls limits.
Including the default recommendations, which did not work.
2) dissabling as many devices as possible via dell's BIO's, to try and
free up the pool.
3) tried the card in a different slot, and remove the other card.
4) a different server
5) set fire to my laptop.

 From the emergency shell if I bring the device down, then re-init, it
begins transfer again, but only for a few seconds. Ping requests lag to
around 300 until it goes down.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-- 

Paul.
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