PCCard bus don't work

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Jan 7 10:01:59 PST 2005


> I have a very old Laptop (IBM Thinkpad 740XL, Pentium 166) which works
> fine with FreeBSD 4.10. I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 just for fun, but
> it seems that GENERIC kernel doesn't get the PCCard bus running ("Unable
> to map IRQ..."). Is there anything that I can do? Freeing or remapping
> IRQ with IBMs tool PS2.EXE didn't help.

You might try adding:
hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"
to /boot/loader.conf. You may want to try some different values for it,
too. 2M works for my 600E and T30.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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