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Date:      Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:09:52 +0100 (BST)
From:      Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
To:        Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HP Omnibook 6000 and if_ray
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010420080952.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
In-Reply-To: <20010419223224.A687@sharmas.dhs.org>

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On 20-Apr-01 Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:51:27AM +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote:
>> 
>> On 16-Apr-01 Arun Sharma wrote:
>>  
>> The driver in -current and -stable is basically the same but the memory
>> allocation in stable is more difficult due to some broken behaviour in
>> pccardd.
>> 
>> >> >> Can you please send me the output of
>> >> >>         # pccardc dumpcis
>> >> >>         # pccardc rdreg
>> >> >>         # pccardc rdmap
>> >> 
>> >> could you do the pccardc rdmap after an ifconfig ray0 <someip address>?
>> >> this
>> >> will give me a bit more info.
> 
> I sent the laptop to HP for a defective key replacement and when it came
> back,
> they'd upgraded the BIOS. After a little bit of effort, the card is working
> now.

Great, what did you have to do to get the card working?

> For some reason, DHCP didn't work. I got a panic on ray_com_ecf a couple of 
> times on reboot. Will post a stack trace here if I see it again.

Oh, that's not too good. I spent a lot of work re-writing the driver to
avoid panics on DHCP. Ah, you said ray_com_ecf - there is a real nasty
busy wait and panic in there that I should get rid of and have on my TODO list.
 
> Also, even after I compiled the kernel with apm, it doesn't detect apm0. Does
> that mean that my laptop doesn't support APM ? If so, what can I do to make
> the laptop not hang on suspends and resumes ?

I'm not sure of how APM works nowadays. On my laptops I've not got it working
either!

>       -Arun
> 

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