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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:48:48 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with NetGear FA410TX in 4.0 (was Re: 5.0-current PC Card NIC ) 
Message-ID:  <200004102248.PAA01983@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:14:10 PDT." <200004102214.PAA21354@ted.isi.edu> 

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> OK, it sounds like many people have this card (NetGear FA410TX)
> running under 4.0 and I don't so I'd appreciate any help I can get.  I
> have Fujitsu Lifebook 5130C running 4.0-RELEASE right off the CDs,
> with a TI1225 pcic in it, and it looks like the ed0 driver can't read
> the card memory correctly.  The ed0 driver returns aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
> at the mac address which is clearly not right, and if I bring the card

I've only seen this with mismatched kernel and userland.

> up there are repeated reports of NIC memory correuption.  I've tried
> several permutations of irq and pcic I/O memory addresses without
> help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> (A verbose boot dmesg and the kernel configuration that produced it
> are included.  I'm using the default pccard.conf (except that the
> available irqs were set to 3 for this run) and pccard_memory in

3 is almost never a suitable IRQ to use for this application.  I also 
don't see the PNPBIOS stuff actually reporting anything - not sure what 
that means in this case.

I'm afraid I don't have any other ideas beyond perhaps that the stock 4.0 
code is not correctly initialising your pcic, sorry.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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