Hi Stuart, Would u please post the panic stack (in /var/adm/messages)? Vincent. Stuart F. Biggar wrote:
>>A new cardbus driver that is capable of handling >>16bit and 32bit PC cards has been released. It >>supports, TI, O2 Micro, Toshiba and Ricoh ( for Sony >>VIAO). >>It's available at >>http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ca >>rdbus. >> >> >>-Sanjay >> >> > > >Sanjay, > >Thanks for the pointer - I've installed in on an IBM T43p. >It works with an IBM Cardbus firewire card and a Plextor >PX-716UF (both Firewire and USB/2 interfaces to the drive). > >However, when I hot plugged an IBM (atheros) Cardbus >802.11abg card, I got a freeze and an automatic reboot. >I rebooted with the card in but got a string of errors on >the boot console and it rebooted again automatically. >I pulled the card. > >The same card works in an older IBM A21p with TI >Cardbus chipsets but only in the top slot as ath1. > >When I hot plugged a (know to work with older versions >of Solaris x86) TDK Global Freedom 5660 PCMCIA modem, >it was recognized but a 'tip pc0' resulted in a "connected" >message and a hard freeze :-( . I pulled the card without >effect so I held the power button down until the machine >powered off. > >I rebooted which stopped with complaints and did a >safe boot as it suggested. After a fsck and fixing things, >it booted normally (or at least it appears that way). > >I tried hot plugging the Firewire card into the Cardbus >slots in the Docking station but that didn't work. I know >the slots in the dock work as they have been used with >Windows XP (and used to work with the Lynnsoft Cardbus >drivers and an IBM A21p running Solaris 10 before the >new ddi stuff broke Lynnsoft). I did some testing with >SunRay server with that machine using the Cardbus >interface as the SunRay private network. I was hoping >to try the same with the T43p but that gets to wait ... > >Thanks for the work on pushing forward Solaris x86 >and specifically notebook friendly stuff. > >Stuart >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >laptop-discuss mailing list >laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
