[WORKING] Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at  2:24:47 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't have the machine running yet, so I'm not sure what you're
> talking about in the last paragraph.  Can you clarify what other
> sysctls you used?

I added the following to /boot/loader.conf, and PCMCIA started working:

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

James also suggested adding:

hw.cbb.start_memory=0x30000000

But that didn't work for me.

> 
> > Now, if only someone would crank out a BCM440x driver... ;-).
> 
> Read what I wrote below:

Sorry, was too excited about actually being able to do something with
the laptop now.  Thanks.

Joe

> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Greg
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