problems using pccard 3c589c with 4.0-snap install
Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time attempting to get a 4.0 snapshot to install on my notebook (Dell Latitude CPi), which until now has been happily running 3.3-PAO. Sadly, it seems not to like my ethernet card. When installing, sysinstall provides three IRQ exclude options before initializing pccard support--the first option causes ep0 not to be probed; the second two allow it to be probed, but not work correctly. DHCP succeeds, but following that the DNS lookup hangs. It appears that the IRQ is set wrong such that incoming packets are not being observed by the IP stack, but this is just speculation. Tcpdump running on the box next to it shows that outgoing packets seem to be alright. Sysinstall's debug screen indicates that IRQ5 is being assigned to the card--PAO was allocating IRQ 3 (and it worked :-). Any pointers--especially ones that get the install of 4.0 working ``out of the box'' on this notebook would be much appreciated. Robert N M Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: problems using pccard 3c589c with 4.0-snap install
As a followup email, I suppose I'm specifically asking if there's a way to make sysinstall allocate IRQ3 to the card, as that seems to be the differentiating factor in terms of hardware configuration allocated between 3.3-PAO and 4.0-snapshot. I.e., rather than a sysinstall field saying, ``Which of these IRQs should I note use'', instead, ``Which should I use''. Or the like. On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Robert Watson wrote: Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time attempting to get a 4.0 snapshot to install on my notebook (Dell Latitude CPi), which until now has been happily running 3.3-PAO. Sadly, it seems not to like my ethernet card. When installing, sysinstall provides three IRQ exclude options before initializing pccard support--the first option causes ep0 not to be probed; the second two allow it to be probed, but not work correctly. DHCP succeeds, but following that the DNS lookup hangs. It appears that the IRQ is set wrong such that incoming packets are not being observed by the IP stack, but this is just speculation. Tcpdump running on the box next to it shows that outgoing packets seem to be alright. Sysinstall's debug screen indicates that IRQ5 is being assigned to the card--PAO was allocating IRQ 3 (and it worked :-). Any pointers--especially ones that get the install of 4.0 working ``out of the box'' on this notebook would be much appreciated. Robert N M Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Robert N M Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: problems using pccard 3c589c with 4.0-snap install
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Watson writes: : Any pointers--especially ones that get the install of 4.0 working ``out of : the box'' on this notebook would be much appreciated. Make buildworld + make installworld from your 3.3 PAO system. I've not had the time/energy to make the install disks bulletproof on all the laptops. I'm seriously thinking of doing two things. First, removing the IRQ from the pcic (eg make it polling always for installs). Second, I'm wanting add smarter IRQ usage to pccardd and/or the sysinstall program... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
