[WORKING] Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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.
> 
> Heh.  Ditto, s/5150/5100/

Follow-up!  James R. Higgins <sysop at bat21.net> suggested doing:

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
hw.cbb.start_memory=0x30000000

This fixed the hang, but I still wasn't able to use my PCMCIA cards. 
Removing the memory range sysctl got everything working beautifully. 
I'm on my wireless LAN as we speak.

Now, if only someone would crank out a BCM440x driver... ;-).

Thanks again to James.

Joe

> 
> > 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 is
> > that sound works.  Thanks for any advice you may offer.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I think the way I'm going to go is:
> 
> 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.
> 
> If anybody has some other suggestions, I'd be pleased to hear them.
> 
> Greg
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