Broken support for 3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jul 13 14:38:40 GMT 2005


In message: <20050713.134026.2003886041.griepent at wias-berlin.de>
            Jens Andre Griepentrog <griepent at wias-berlin.de> writes:
: 
: >  Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:32:47 -0600 (MDT)
: >  "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
: >
: >  In message: <d64aa176050517083122e0bec7 at mail.gmail.com>
: >              Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail.com> writes:
: >  : On 5/17/05, Jens Andre Griepentrog <griepent at wias-berlin.de> wrote:
: >  : > 
: >  : >   Hello,
: >  : > 
: >  : >   I have upgraded my Compaq Armada 1750 notebook to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
: >  : >   In contrast to the old 5.1-RELEASE, now the support for my 3Com 3c575C
: >  : >   Fast Etherlink XL cardbus network device seems to be broken.
: >  : >   It will not be initialized as you can see in the dmesg output below:
: >  : > 
: >  : <snip>
: >  : > uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x2000-0x201f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0
: >  : <snip>
: >  : > xl0: <3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x1100-0x117f mem 0x88000000-0x8800007f,0x88000080-0x880000ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
: >  : 
: >  : 
: >  : My 3c575C (xl) works fine on 5.4.  My first guess would be the USB and
: >  : NIC using the same IRQ is causing some problems.
: >  
: >  No.  That's not the problem.  It is more likely a resource problem for
: >  memory...
: >  
: >  Warner
: >  
: 
: It seems to me that FreeBSD-5.4 has not only problems
: with the 3c575C card attached to my Compaq Armada 1750.
: I also tried out a D-Link DFE-690TXD network card on this
: notebook, again without success. At work both cards work
: fine on an Acer TravelMate 630 notebook and FreeBSD-5.4!

OK.  The Armada problem sounds like a resource one.  I've been able to
use all my CardBus cards in my Sony PCG-Z1WA of late.

Warner


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