From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 4 18:13:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA05845 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA05840 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA19319; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:12:42 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA00546; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:42:39 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905104238.09237@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:42:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ian Wood Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stuck installing PAO on Acernote Light References: <199709041005.UAA00927@axon.elec.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199709041005.UAA00927@axon.elec.uq.edu.au>; from Ian Wood on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 08:05:56PM +1000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 08:05:56PM +1000, Ian Wood wrote: > re: AcerNote Light - attempt to use with PAO > > Thankyou all for the quick and useful replies. > > I have had another go at it, but haven't got it working. > > Replying to Mike: >> Are you in a position to add/enable extra debugging in the pcic support > code? > > If you mean writing code - no I'm not up to it, unfortunately. > > As for enabling more debugging - I don't know how to. > I had a look through /usr/src/sys/pccard/pcic.c and found > a verbose boot message for CardBus systems. > My kernel doesn't produce it, so it probably isn't a CardBus > system. I was pretty sure of this already since Windows '95 > (which I have on another partition) identifies it as > a "Cirrus Logic PCIC compatible PCMCIA controller". > I guess this answers your other question. Yes, this isn't a CardBus system. > Replying to Greg: > > I had already seen a number of your messages after searching the > archives, but since you had a 3Com 3C589C (and I don't), they > didn't inspire much hope in me. That doesn't exactly make things better, but it's not a reason to abandon hope either. > I tried the newest 3.0-SNAP boot disk and was initially amazed to > see my cards CIS data read by both ze0 and zp0. > kernel reports: > ze: pcmcia slot 0: NetComm Ltd~CardModem336~ ~ ~ > ze: pcmcia slot 1: SMC~EtherEZ Ethernet 8020~V1.00~~ > ze0 not found at 0x300 > > Same messages for zp0. This is progress, anyway. > After a while I realised that ze0 & zp0 are not compatible with PAO, I don't understand. Don't they work at all with PAO? Can anybody else confirm? > and since they did not find the cards sufficiently well by themselves > 3.0 without PAO won't work either. > > This may prove something about the availability of the CIS data > on this machine though ? I think it shows that the software can detect your board, but it's not really happy with it. Which driver is correct for the SMC board? How about building a kernel with support just for this board, and at the I/O address that the board is set to? You may find PLIP invaluable in this phase, BTW :-) Greg