Netgear MA401 and 4.x-STABLE

[Puna Tannehill]

Puna Tannehill wrote:

> Puna Tannehill wrote:
> 
>> Dan Langille wrote:
>>
>>> Despite what it says on the hardware release notes and 
>>> http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops, I can't get a recently 
>>> acquired Netgear MA401 to appear under ifconfig.
>>>
>>> FWIW, FreeSBIE panic'd if the Netgear MA401 is inserted when booting. 
>>>  If added after boot, all is well.  FWIW, I found a similar problem 
>>> with the cards provided by USENIX in Boston.
>>>
>>> Should I be expecting this card to work under -STABLE.  Everything 
>>> I've read indicates so.  
>>
>>
>>
>> Try adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
>>
>>     hw.pcic.intr_path="1"
>>
>> and reboot.  It enables ISA interrupt routing.
>>
>> Puna
> 
> 
> Actually, I was just reading another post you made where you say that 
> you have a T41, so the above may not be necessary if your pcmcia slot is 
> completely pci and does not have a isa/pci bridge.
> 
> If you do have purely pci slot, and it is panicing on boot, you may have 
> an irq conflict.  I believe pccardd defaults to use irq 3, unless 
> otherwise specified.  Try updating the pccardd_flags line 
> /boot/loader.conf to use the -i switch to  allocate the appropriate irq:

grr, i mean /etc/rc.conf, not /boot/loader.conf.

Puna

> 
>     pccardd_flage=" -i 10"
> 
> irq 10 happens to be my setting on an old Presario 1692.
> 
> does the kernel panic when you try and boot the generic kernel with the 
> ma401 in?  If not, you may have in recompiled the kernel without the 
> appropriate device drivers for card, pcic and wi.
> 
> Puna
> 
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