On Wednesday, 30 June 1999 at 22:56:43 -0700, Dan Strick wrote:
> I am attempting to configure a couple of pccards on a DELL Inspiron 3500
> running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Neither card works:
>
> 1) The first card is some sort of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. It seems
> to be called a "DELL Margi". Whenever the card is inserted and
> pccardd is running, the entire system hangs so hard that console
> I/O no longer works. Even ctl-alt-del is ignored. The power
> button is ignored. I have to turn the machine off by poking a
> special hidden recessed button on the side with a paper clip.
>
> I don't expect to find a FreeBSD driver for this card, but I would
> prefer that having it physically installed didn't hang the system.
Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is
using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the
machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3
and an Ethernet board on 9, it works, but only by putting pccardd on
irq 5, which doesn't really work. If I pull the Ethernet card, the
whole machine hangs up when I try to access the net, presumably
because pccardd hasn't found out about it.
> 2) The second card is a "DELL 10/100 LAN+56K Modem CardBus by 3Com".
> A label on the back of the card says "Model 3CCFEM656".
>
> The command "pccardc dumpcis" reports:
>
> Configuration data for card in slot 1
> Tuple #1, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0
>
> I assume that pccardd cannot recognize and configure cards without
> configuration data. Is this card broken in some sense? Can anyone
> recommend a driver?
I've seen this kind of problem on my Latitude laptop after running
Microsoft. It seems that Microsoft sets the board state in such a way
that a simple reboot doesn't reset it, and this is the result. If I
power down the machine and then boot it with FreeBSD, I don't have any
problems. Have you tried that?
Greg
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