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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:21:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        MIHIRA Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCMCIA card temporarily freezes system
Message-ID:  <200010310521.e9V5LPh47498@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <200010301227.e9UCRIb08030@lavender.sanpei.org> "from MIHIRA Yoshiro at Oct 30, 2000 09:27:18 pm"

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MIHIRA Yoshiro writes:
> >> I have this PCMCIA card: PMX PE-200, which uses the "ed" driver.
> >> It has worked for me before on another system, but in trying
> >> on a ThinkPad A20m laptop with FreeBSD 4.1.1-REL, it seems
> >> to temporarily "freeze" the system when plugged in.
> >> 
> >> That is, if pccardd is not running, everything looks normal.
> >> When pccardd is started, it detects the card and the kernel
> >> spits out the probe message with the IRQ and memory address,
> >> and then the system completely freezes:
> >> 
> >>   pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> >>   ed0 at port 0x300-0x31f iomem 0xd4000-0xd43ff irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
> >> 
> >> Pressing keys on the keyboard does nothing. But then if I pop out
> >> the card, the system continues normally (responding to any keys
> >> pressed while frozen), printing out the card's Ethernet address,
> >> etc. Of course then pccard immediately detects the card has been
> >> popped out and detaches the interface:
> >> 
> >>   ed0: address 00:20:e0:0f:a6:9f, type NE2000 (16 bit)
> >>   ed0: detached
> >>   pccard: card removed, slot 0
> >>   stray irq 10
> >> 
> >> This can be repeeated any number of times.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas? I've tried different interrupts, etc., to no avail.
> >> This card works fine under Win98 on the same laptop. Dmesg
> >> excerpts below..
> 
> Try below quick hack patch. 
> Some PC-Card which uses "ed" driver have hung-up with ed_get_linksys.
> But we don't solve this problem....
> 
> +#if 0
>  	if (ed_get_Linksys(sc) == 0) {
> +#endif

Thank you!! That worked!

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com


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