Re: FreeBSD 6.0, ThinkPad 600, dc0: watchdog timeout - ACPI?
Thanks, Björn. Your information solved this problem, the networking works correctly now. Ah, well, I upgraded my other ThinkPad from 600 to 600E to get the 16M colors. I guess I will have to do the same to this new machine for more reasons... Ad astra, Fred Koschara At 02:23 AM 6/6/2006, Björn König wrote: Hello, I had a Thinkpad 600 and a lot of problems too, especially with networking and the cardbus. It received the impression that the chipset of the 600 is totally broken. The revisited successor 600E doesn't make so much trouble at all. Add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf, restart and see what happens. These lines solved some of my problems regarding unreliable networking. hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 hw.pci.link.LNKA.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKB.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKC.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKD.irq=11 Regards Björn Ignorance can easily be cured by knowledge, stupidity is generally only cured by death... Truth and Falsehood were bathing. Falsehood came out of the water first and dressed herself in Truth's clothes. Truth, unwilling to put on the garments of Falsehood, went naked. (Author Unknown) The "war on terror" is a sham: There is no real protection against suicidal maniacs spurred on by creative madmen. In the end, the only outcomes will be the destruction of the American economy due to pouring a bankrupting stream of wealth into a bottomless pit, and the final destruction of personal liberty in the name of "security." (When was the last time you were asked for "Your papers, please?" - er, that is, "License and registration?") FKE Internet, Web hosting for space related businesses Domain registration - $15.95/year, $29.95 for 2 years http://FKEinternet.com For private sector (commercial) space development, visit http://www.L5Development.com For your daily dose of art, try http://PhotoByFred.com L5 Software Development - "out of this world" sites and software http://www.L5Software.com How much did your last traffic ticket cost you? http://www.StopHighwayRobbery.com FredLines(tm), T-Shirts For the Thinking Mind(tm) http://www.FredLines-TShirts.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.0, ThinkPad 600, dc0: watchdog timeout - ACPI?
Hello, I had a Thinkpad 600 and a lot of problems too, especially with networking and the cardbus. It received the impression that the chipset of the 600 is totally broken. The revisited successor 600E doesn't make so much trouble at all. Add the following lines to /boot/loader.conf, restart and see what happens. These lines solved some of my problems regarding unreliable networking. hw.cbb.start_memory=0xd8000 hw.pci.link.LNKA.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKB.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKC.irq=11 hw.pci.link.LNKD.irq=11 Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 6.0, ThinkPad 600, dc0: watchdog timeout - ACPI?
I just purchased another ThinkPad 600 and installed FreeBSD 6.0, expecting
it would go as smoothly as had my previous installations of FreeBSD on my
Web, database and nameservers, on the desktop machine on which I'm
experimenting with FreeBSD programming, and on the Dell Latitude where
FreeBSD is one of the 5 operating systems I have installed. The
installation did, indeed, seem to go smoothly. However, network
connectivity is an issue: Any time I try to do something that would
connect to the network (ntpd checking for time servers, sendmail starting
during the boot process, ftp, ping) I get dc0 watchdog timeout errors, and
most of the time nothing else. When I ping the network gateway, nothing
happens for several seconds, then ping reports response times of 8.77~,
7.77~, 6.77~, ..., 0.77~ seconds in a batch, then "goes to sleep" again,
repeating the sequence.
I made the mistake of trying to start Gnome with this problem
occurring. When, over an hour later, I was able to *finally* get to where
I could shut the desktop down gracefully, I resolved to not do *that*
exercise again!
This laptop came with two PCMCIA network cards - an IBM 10/100 EtherJet
CardBus 32-bit adapter, and a 3Com 3C574-TX 10/100Base-TX 16-bit
adapter. The EtherJet is the one I'm getting the dc0 watchdog timeout
errors with. When I try the 3Com, the boot process reports that it's
detected the card, but it doesn't make a network connection. I tried the
D-Link DFE-690TXD I use all the time in my w98 ThinkPad. FreeBSD
recognized the card, but did not attempt to configure it or make a network
connection. I also tried a D-Link DWL-G630 AirPlus G wireless card, which
FreeBSD didn't even know was there, as well as a D-Link DWL-AB650 AirPro
A/B wireless card. FreeBSD acknowledged the presence of the AB650, but
said there was no driver attached.
The EtherJet works correctly with both w2K on my Lattitude, and under w98
on my other ThinkPad (once I downloaded the drivers).
During the boot process, FreeBSD properly discovers the network card and
seems to be configuring it, including negotiating the IP address with the
DHCP server. Immediately after printing the MAC address, a bold text line
is written saying "dc0: link state changed to DOWN" and it writes the two
remaining lines ("media: Ethernet autoselect (none)" and "status: no
carrier"). There have been times when another bold line was printed later
saying "dc0: link state changed to UP", but the condition did not persist,
because I was getting dc0: watchdog timeout errors before the boot process
was done in those cases as well.
I tried using ifconfig to force the EtherJet into 10Mbps mode, as well as
full and half duplex, but none of those changes seem to have made any
difference. I also added "media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" to the
ifconfig_dc0 line in rc.conf. This changed the reported "Ethernet
autoselect (none)" to "Ethernet 100baseTX " as expected, but
the "status: no carrier" keeps coming up.
When I boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled (option 2), it reports several
unknown devices in the PCI PnP scan (not surprising) - and the EtherJet
works correctly. (Gnome comes up quickly, also.) However, when I boot
with ACPI enabled (option 1), the EtherJet cannot connect. I booted with
verbose logging, and noticed a couple of things: There are 4 devices, in
addition to the cardbus device, assigned to irq 9 (which is the irq being
used for the network connection, from what I can see), and FreeBSD says the
cardbus device is 16 bits, not 32 bits.
The man dc(4) page says the dc%d: watchdog timeout error can happen if the
device is unable to deliver interrupts for some reason, or if there is a
problem with the network connection. If there was a problem with the
network connection, I would expect to the lights on the switch (a D-Link
DSS-8+) to not be showing a solid network connetion, but this isn't happening.
When Gnome is starting, it also reports "No volume control elements and/or
devices found." I thought this might be related to whether ACPI was active
or not, but the same error message is displayed in both cases. I don't
know if this is a related issue or not.
uname -a reports
"FreeBSD London.FKEinternet.com 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC
2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386"
Please advise if any further information would be helpful in resolving this
problem - should I send the verbose dmesg output? dmesg with and without
ACPI, for comparison?
Thanks for any suggestions and support!
-- Fred Koschara
Ignorance can easily be cured by knowledge, stupidity is generally only
cured by death...
Truth and Falsehood were bathing. Falsehood came ou
Re: thinkpad 600
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Jerry McAllister clacked the keyboard to produce: > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce: > > > I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an > > > everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly > > > do my bit for the other battlers in the field > > > > Works real well. I would suggest FreeBSD 4.9 for now. Same here. Have tried some of the 5.x, and ran into some kookiness, if you will. The 4.9 is quite good right now. > > > Your best bet will be to delete the partition set up for Windows 98 and > > use the full disk and auto slices from the install routine. > > I am not sure why this would be recommended. > If you have enough disk, then just shrink the Win-98 slice to > make room for another one and install FreeBSD on it. Then you > can "dual boot" the machine - that is you can have both systems > available and choose at boot time which to bring up. The OP notes, as seen above, that he is after using FreeBSD daily and to be rid of Microsoft, hence my suggestion of a single boot device. -- Bob "Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom." -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: thinkpad 600
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce: > > Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 > > as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit > > I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an > > everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly > > do my bit for the other battlers in the field > > Thanks > > gary > > Sure, you will need to start at the FreeBSD web pages and read up on the > install methods etc. Next you will want to download some form of the > media, either the floppy images or a full CD iso image. Or better yet, > purchase them from the FreeBSD mall. If not purchase, you can make a > donation to the project, but I digress. > > Once you have the media, assuming the CD, you can set the Thinkpad BIOS > to boot from the CD. When you boot from the CD, you will begin the > install and just follow through. Works real well. I would suggest FreeBSd 4.9 for now. > Your best bet will be to delete the partition set up for Windows 98 and > use the full disk and auto slices from the install routine. I am not sure why this would be recommended. If you have enough disk, then just shrink the Win-98 slice to make room for another one and install FreeBSD on it. Then you can "dual boot" the machine - that is you can have both systems available and choose at boot time which to bring up. There are good directions in the FreeBSd documentation on how to dual boot a machine. It works well. I have three of them dual booted here in the office - with Win-95, Win2k, and XP along side the FreeBSD. The only real difficulty is that people often get confused by the terminology.FreeBSD divides a disk in up to 4 to slices that are designated 1,,4. Then each slice can be divided in to as many as 8 partitions designated a,,h. But, Microsoft calls those slices primary partitions. It can get a little more convuluted because MS has extra divisions it calls extended partitions, but they have no _direct_ analog in FreeBSD. So, documentation can be a little confusing. Just pay attention to how the terms are being used. > It should be > obvious when you run through it. Just take your time and read each > screen well and make sure you understand what you are doing at each > screen. I have read it here before that if this is your first go at > FreeBSD, like Window$, you will want to install more than once, just > because as a newbie you will make a mistake or two. No worries though, > there are many people here who will help when you have troubles. > > Just be sure to read as much as you can prior to asking a question, and > maybe search google or dogpile or something like that to get answers > prior to asking. Almost all the questions you will have in the beginning > will have already been answered many times before. I agree with reading as much as you can before getting started. The place to start is with the FreeBSd handbook - available on the FreeBSD web site and then the FAQs and some other archive and third party web page comments. Finally there are several good pubblished books in print such as "The Complete FreeBSD" and "FreeBSD Unleashed" that take you through the install process. Finally, when you have digested those sources as much as you can (admittedly, it is hard to absorb everything before you start and gain some experience), ask clarifying questions on this list or on the newbies list, etc. jerry > > Finally, you will most likely want to ask Thinkpad specific questions on > the `mobile' FreeBSD mailing list. The address is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions about FreeBSD belong here. Just so > you know, FreeBSD runs great on the 600 series. It is running nicely on > my 600X and also on my T22. > > Good luck and enjoy. > > -- > Bob > > "Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's > properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom." > -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: thinkpad 600
On Friday 16 April 2004 09:59 am, Rob wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 > >as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit > >I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an > >everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly > >do my bit for the other battlers in the field > >Thanks > >gary > >___ > > Hi Gary, Easiest way is to download one of the release (4.9 latest) > iso's off of ftp.freebsd.org or mirrors. Bun the cd as bootable, then > boot up with it. A graphical ibstall program guides u thru the > installation. But beware- keep windoze if you choose to use as the > first partition. it doesnt like being any where else :) FreeBSD as > part of the instal, will install a menued bootloader, hope this > helps sincerely, Rob You might also check the url below: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html Whereas most of the Linux info will be irrelevant, you may find some good tips on XFree86 configuration and other issues that are common between Linux and FreeBSD. Good luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: thinkpad 600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly do my bit for the other battlers in the field Thanks gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Hi Gary, Easiest way is to download one of the release (4.9 latest) iso's off of ftp.freebsd.org or mirrors. Bun the cd as bootable, then boot up with it. A graphical ibstall program guides u thru the installation. But beware- keep windoze if you choose to use as the first partition. it doesnt like being any where else :) FreeBSD as part of the instal, will install a menued bootloader, hope this helps sincerely, Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: thinkpad 600
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] clacked the keyboard to produce: > Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 > as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit > I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an > everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly > do my bit for the other battlers in the field > Thanks > gary Sure, you will need to start at the FreeBSD web pages and read up on the install methods etc. Next you will want to download some form of the media, either the floppy images or a full CD iso image. Or better yet, purchase them from the FreeBSD mall. If not purchase, you can make a donation to the project, but I digress. Once you have the media, assuming the CD, you can set the Thinkpad BIOS to boot from the CD. When you boot from the CD, you will begin the install and just follow through. Your best bet will be to delete the partition set up for Windows 98 and use the full disk and auto slices from the install routine. It should be obvious when you run through it. Just take your time and read each screen well and make sure you understand what you are doing at each screen. I have read it here before that if this is your first go at FreeBSD, like Window$, you will want to install more than once, just because as a newbie you will make a mistake or two. No worries though, there are many people here who will help when you have troubles. Just be sure to read as much as you can prior to asking a question, and maybe search google or dogpile or something like that to get answers prior to asking. Almost all the questions you will have in the beginning will have already been answered many times before. Finally, you will most likely want to ask Thinkpad specific questions on the `mobile' FreeBSD mailing list. The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions about FreeBSD belong here. Just so you know, FreeBSD runs great on the 600 series. It is running nicely on my 600X and also on my T22. Good luck and enjoy. -- Bob "Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom." -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
thinkpad 600
Hi Please can you tell me how to install freebsd on my thinkpad 600 as I have win 98 on it and it is a refurbed unit I would like to investigate freebsd as an os and use it in an everyday enviroment and say good riddens to MS and hopefolly do my bit for the other battlers in the field Thanks gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-5.1 on Thinkpad 600 - cbb0 problems
Hi - I have made some progress on my own with this, but not complete progress. What I have done is: 1) build a customer kernel with "make buildkernel KERNCONF=OLDCONF" 2) create /etc/pccard.conf with one line "irq9" 3) swap the 3CCFE575CT-D for a 3C589C card. Now then, what are my remaining problems? A) If I remove and insert the card after it has been configured, the system hangs forever. B) If I kill and start the pccardd process, it is unable to assign an IRQ. So, with this further information, does anyone have further suggestions? It would be nice to have the 10/100 (3c575) card work, and I have a feeling that I should be worried about using IRQ 9. Thanks in advance - Marc On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Marc Evans wrote: > Hi - > > I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 (no letter after the 600) which I have recently > installed FreeBSD-5.1 onto via CD-ROM. When booting the system, there are > several lines logged to /var/log/messages which are troubling. I believe > that these messages are at the root of why none of my PCMCIA cards > function. Ideally, I'd like to get my NIC (3CCFE575CT-D) working. The > messages observed are: > > pci0: on pcib0 > cbb0: mem 0x2130100-0x21301fff at device 2.0 on pci0 > cardbus0: on cbb0 > pccard0: <16-bit PCCARD bus> on cbb0 > cbb: Unable to map IRQ... > device_probe_and_attach: cbb0: attach returned 12 > > A similar set of lines is output for cardbus1. Somewhat later in the log I > also see these lines: > > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (irq) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > > I have not placed anything into /etc/pccard.conf nor have I build a > custom kernel. I have used this same set of hardware with a few different > Linux variations, including Knoppix and Mandrake. > > I have tried running "pccardd -d" by hand, found that nothing is output to > the screen and it quickly terminates with a status 1. I also observe that > /dev/card* don't exist. > > My questions are: > > 1) Does anyone else have an IBM Thinkpad 600 working with any > pccards, and if so what magic did you find necessary? > > 2) Can anyone provide suggestions/pointers given the log > information shown? > > 3) What other information should I provide for people to be > able to better help me? > > Thanks in advance - Marc > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD-5.1 on Thinkpad 600 - cbb0 problems
Hi - I have an IBM Thinkpad 600 (no letter after the 600) which I have recently installed FreeBSD-5.1 onto via CD-ROM. When booting the system, there are several lines logged to /var/log/messages which are troubling. I believe that these messages are at the root of why none of my PCMCIA cards function. Ideally, I'd like to get my NIC (3CCFE575CT-D) working. The messages observed are: pci0: on pcib0 cbb0: mem 0x2130100-0x21301fff at device 2.0 on pci0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCARD bus> on cbb0 cbb: Unable to map IRQ... device_probe_and_attach: cbb0: attach returned 12 A similar set of lines is output for cardbus1. Somewhat later in the log I also see these lines: unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (irq) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (port) I have not placed anything into /etc/pccard.conf nor have I build a custom kernel. I have used this same set of hardware with a few different Linux variations, including Knoppix and Mandrake. I have tried running "pccardd -d" by hand, found that nothing is output to the screen and it quickly terminates with a status 1. I also observe that /dev/card* don't exist. My questions are: 1) Does anyone else have an IBM Thinkpad 600 working with any pccards, and if so what magic did you find necessary? 2) Can anyone provide suggestions/pointers given the log information shown? 3) What other information should I provide for people to be able to better help me? Thanks in advance - Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
