Date: 24 Jul 2003 02:24:47 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [WORKING] Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups Message-ID: <1059027887.79467.52.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724061526.GI5448@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1059025604.79467.44.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030724061526.GI5448@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--=-56L3B9HSo1JYZISVeD9h Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:15, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 1:46:44 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5150 thinking it would be a nice > > replacement for my 8100. So far, I'm not impressed. The BroadCom > > BCM440x ethernet controller isn't supported, and everytime I insert a > > PCMCIA card, the machine locks. >=20 > Heh. Ditto, s/5150/5100/ Follow-up! James R. Higgins <sysop@bat21.net> suggested doing: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=3D1 hw.cbb.start_memory=3D0x30000000 This fixed the hang, but I still wasn't able to use my PCMCIA cards.=20 Removing the memory range sysctl got everything working beautifully.=20 I'm on my wireless LAN as we speak. Now, if only someone would crank out a BCM440x driver... ;-). Thanks again to James. Joe >=20 > > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE, but I want to move to -CURRENT if I can get > > a network connection. Basically, if the machine is up and running, > > and I insert the card, it locks (no console messages, nothing). The > > only solution is to hold the power button down until the machine > > shuts down. If I have the card inserted at boot time, the machine > > gets to: > > > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad2s3a > > > > Then locks up the same way. > > > > ... I have tried NEWCARD and OLDCARD. I am > > > > I'm really hoping there's some hope here. So far, the only good news i= s > > that sound works. Thanks for any advice you may offer. >=20 > You're a little ahead of me here. I'm still backing up the disk > contents. Knoppix (Linux) doesn't recognize the Broadcomm card, but > it does initialize the PCMCIA card OK. >=20 > Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card. See > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html > for more details. Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page, > http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html, which > I haven't read yet. >=20 > I think the way I'm going to go is: >=20 > 1. Install 5.0-RELEASE (because that's what I have on CD-ROM). > 2. Move the -CURRENT sources, including Broadcomm driver, to the box > (probably via CD-R). > 3. Take it from there. >=20 > If anybody has some other suggestions, I'd be pleased to hear them. >=20 > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-56L3B9HSo1JYZISVeD9h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/H3uvb2iPiv4Uz4cRAl6vAJ9KGGUPG5ezUAatM/6ZbojPknCJJQCeOY1e MyOhP0hRJrmFe+isIZdjXf0= =ob9Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-56L3B9HSo1JYZISVeD9h--
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