Thinkpad 600E and 5.2

[Cody Baker]

I looked a few months back, and found this thread. I'm not sure how well 
they relate, but it does make mention of the error I'm getting, and also 
a tunable.  I haven't the foggiest what I would set that tunable to.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003695.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003697.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003698.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003699.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003700.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003706.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-April/003707.html


Peter Sandilands wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Kevin Oberman [mailto:oberman at es.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:24 AM
>>To: peter at sandilands.vu
>>Cc: Gary Kline; Victor Bratsev; FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600E and 5.2
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>>>From: "Peter Sandilands" <peter at sandilands.vu>
>>>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:15:16 +1000
>>>Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
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>>>I just dug out a TP600E, installed 4.10........
>>>
>>>Xircom RE100 - works fine (16 bit card)
>>>Xircom RealPort Cardbus Ethernet 10/100-Modem 56 - no go,
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>> expected as
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>>>no cardbus support in 4.x
>>>D-Link DFE650 - works fine
>>>3Com Megahertz 3CCFE574BT - works fine
>>>
>>>The "E" is a 2645-5JA
>>>
>>>Just FYI these also work in a TP600, TP600X
>>>
>>>If I use 5.x I need to run OLDCARD but the above cards
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>>work there also
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>>This surprises me a bit. I have not booted V5 on my 600E for about a
>>year, but I was running NEWCARD on it at that time. Has something
>>broken?
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>>I do belive that I did have to add a sysctl to make NEWCARD work,
>>though, but it supported my CardBus 10/100 Xircom card.
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>I'd be very interested in what the sysctl change was.
>I've tried 5.1, 5.2, 5.21 and none of them work out of the box with my
>cards and my TPs (yeah I own a collection :-) ).
>So I've always just fallen back to using OLDCARD.  But I'd like to
>switch to NEWCARD.
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>Maybe I should do some digging??
>
>Pete
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