Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 17:01:14 -0700 From: Ken Key <key@network-alchemy.com> To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inserting Orinoco Silver wireless card locks machine Message-ID: <200106240001.f5O01Ee42847@salt.cips.nokia.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of 24 Jun 2001 00:53:17 %2B0100. <8666dm21oy.fsf@pan.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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If you are running 4.3-RELEASE, I've found I need to: 1) turn on Plug-and-Play OS in the BIOS and 2) Assign an IRQ to the PCMCIA controller (pcic0) and not use polling mode to prevent the kind of lock-up you described on machines with the Ricoh controller. You can do 2) by recompiling a new kernel and replacing the "irq 0" with a free IRQ or if you boot with the -c flag into configuration mode (command line, for some reason you can't set the IRQ in visual mode). I've only done the compile-new-kernel method as I'm compiling a new kernel for other reasons ("vn", for one). If you are running -CURRENT, sorry, I don't know. Hope this helps, K^2 > Hi all, > > I am having a problem with a Lucent Orinoco silver pcmcia card. I am > using a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600HEK. Every time I plug this type of card > (I've tried 2 of them) into my machine, the machine locks solid. I > have to power off and back on. If I have the card in when I boot up, > the machine will not boot. > > I have seen the same behaviour with a Dell wireless card. > > At boot time, the lines I get in my log about pcic devices are as > follows: > > Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic-pci0: <Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 12.0 on pci0 > Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic0: <Intel i82365> at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 on isa0 > Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pcic0: Polling mode > Jun 24 00:31:51 pan /kernel: pccard0: <PC Card bus -- kludge version> on pcic0 > > I am not getting any messages when I plug the card in at all, just a > hard lock. > > I had heard that these cards were fairly well supported, so I don't > know if it is a clash between my card and the laptop, or what. Any > help resolving this would be much appreciated! > Thanks, > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Ken Key (key@cips.nokia.com, key@Network-Alchemy.com) Nokia, Clustered IP Solutions, Santa Cruz, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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