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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:17:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   ThinkPad i Series 1161 - PCMCIA?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.40.0111121503550.81792-100000@TMA-1.brad-x.com>

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I've been working on getting FreeBSD running smoothly on this particular
model, and two things are hanging me up at the moment.

First, this model depends on PCMCIA ethernet cards for network access, and
neither 4.4-STABLE nor 5.0-CURRENT from my research seem to support the
O2Micro PCCARD controller on this machine. I'm wondering if there is any
progress in this regard, or if I've missed something important that will
let it run.

Current symptoms include;

Device pcic is detected as an O2Micro OZ6812 Cardbus controller, with the
warning "this may not work". pccardd detects the insertion of a DLink
DE-660 PCMCIA 16 bit card, reads MAC, etc. The interface can be manually
given an IP, and responds to ping.

Use of dhclient causes the kernel message 'device timeout' to appear
repeatedly until dhclient is killed. Any other sort of network access does
the same.

Second issue, more minor but a hangup nonetheless:

System boots, gets to USB root hub, hangs on the message "SMM not
responding, resetting". I had to install FreeBSD from another notebook
computer and reconfigure it without USB support to get around this.

Both these problems are documented at some amount of length or brevity on
the mailinglists, but I couldn't locate a PR on either of them - if they
could be pointed out be someone who knows, I'd appreciate it.

This is a pretty common series of notebook computer where I'm at, so some
indication of progress on hardware support for it would be greatly
appreciated.

Otherwise, the system boots once properly configured and runs without
flaw. Video, sound and parallel work well.

I'd appreciate any input or pointers to previous posts on this matter,
thanks!

Brad

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