Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:40:05 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jason Friedland <jfriedland@ozemail.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM TP 600E - Xircom Cardbus Message-ID: <20030923224005.63E205D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jason Friedland <jfriedland@ozemail.com.au> of "Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:17:14 %2B1000." <3F6D264A.8000005@ozemail.com.au>
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> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:17:14 +1000 > From: Jason Friedland <jfriedland@ozemail.com.au> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Hi there > > I'm after a few pointers for installing FreeBSD 5.1 on a TP 600E. I have > installed it on this machine previously but couldn't get my Xircom > CardBus Ethernet 10/100 + 56K Modem card working so threw the towel in. > > I have Slackware 9 on it right now and it works flawlessly after a bit > of tweaking (well, all the devices such as the Xircom, sound, DVD work) > but really want to get 5.1 going. > > After googling around for FreeBSD on a 600E I found an article > (focussing on 4.7) which suggested I recompile the kernel in order to > get the Xircom working. I did this, rebooted and still no ethernet. > > I know this is a bit vague but if anyone has some tips on how to get > this card going I'd be most grateful. First, CardBus is only supported in 5.x, so 4.7 will not do it for you. I have used this exact card with my old 600E on 5.?, but I am not sure when I last tried it. It's possible that there has been a regression, but it does still work with my T30, so I expect it still will work on my 600E. One key to the 600e is to turn off ACPI. APM works just fine, but the ACPI has serious problems. I have not tried it for a while, so the situation might have improved, but I'd start with APM and get things working. Build the GENERIC configuration and it should "just work". The modem will be si04/cuaa0. The Ethernet should be dc0. You may have to add several lines to /boot/loader.conf. On my T30 I have: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1" hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000" apm_load="1" I think the same values will work for the 600E, but it is at another office, so I can't confirm that right now. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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