Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:21:03 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bobj89@bobj.org> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Psion Gold Card modem on Inspiron 7500 Message-ID: <200211231121.03866.bobj89@bobj.org> In-Reply-To: <200211182252.25112.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> References: <200211182252.25112.stest033@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu>
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On Monday 18 November 2002 10:52 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: > The short form of my question is "how do I configure FreeBSD 4.7 stable > from a few days ago so my Psion Gold Card modem will once again work with > my Inspiron 7500?" It's a common enough combination that I expect someone > will have it already. > For the record, everything is working happily now. I returned to the default settings that didn't work two weeks ago, and now they work. In the kernel config: device pcic0 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 device pcic1 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000 disable options PCIC_RESUME_RESET # reset pccards after resume device card and everything works with PCI interrupt routing. I knew it would turn out that someone had already solved the problem ;-) I still don't know why it wasn't working. Clearly something was misconfigured, but I'm not sure what. I did end up wiping the entire source tree and starting over because I couldn't install world at one point, so I suspect something was out of sync. - Bob > The longer version is that I used to have no problem using the modem with > FreeBSD. I upgraded to 4.7 stable a few weeks ago so I could use > BSD-Airtools, and I thought everything was great until I went on a trip and > tried to use my modem. When it tried to dial it locked up the system to > the point that I had to power down to recover. I loaned my spare modem to > someone so I don't know if the problem is specific to this modem or is more > general. > > I looked at dmesg and found that the modem was being assigned IRQ 11. > I looked at the dumpcis output and found that the modem doesn't support > IRQ 11. After a lot of reading, I added hw.pcic.intr_path=1 and > hw.pcic.irq=0 to /boot/loader.conf so I was back to something like the > old pccard behavior. Rebooted the system and found that now the modem > was being assigned IRQ 3, which is an available IRQ on the system, and > one the modem supports. Success! Except that the modem still didn't > work. Still locks up the system. Works fine when I boot Windows 98. > > With ISA interrupts, the wireless card driver (wi) goes bananas when I > insert the modem (i.e. both cards in the system): watchdog timeout > messages, and a system so unresponsive that it is barely possible to get it > to reboot.. With PCI interrupts wi is less annoyed by having another card > in the system. > > Either way the modem doesn't seem to talk to the system, although there > is some indication that communication is happening because it locks up > the system if I try to get it to dial. I've used the term mode of ppp, and > tip, in an effort to talk to the modem. > > Have I missed something, or is the pccard system in an unstable > state right now? I've updated the system three times in the past ten days > hoping to improve things (the last one was Saturday night). > > Thanks, > > - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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