pccard slot not working properly

[Jim Stapleton]

I appologize. The cards are a Linksys WPC54G v3, a SMC wireless card
(can't remember the model, it's a friends and not an Atheros model),
and another of her cards, a D-Link wireless (tulip), and two tried at
the store - one Atheros based SMC (listed as good), and one Atheros
based D-Link (511T I think?) listed as good, none would work. Anyway,
I'm in a pinch for time, and am trying Linux on this thing, since
it'll use the oneboard wireless (dang you intel and your 3945! You are
making me suffer the defilement of all that is good!).

Regardless, the PCCARD/PCMCIA chip is a ToPIC 100 (Toshiba), which I
found after sending that mail, and also found that it causes trouble
with FreeBSD. I want to get FreeBSD working, so I'll post what you
listed, but it won't be until I'm back from my trip (which will be in
about 2.5 weeks).

Thanks for the help. I hope to get FreeBSD working on this thing in
all ways soon, so I don't have to revert to the defilement again...

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton

On 10/3/06, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> I hate to sound like Bill Paul, but can you provide a little more
> information?  Like what card is this?  Cardbus or PC Card?
>
> I'd boot -v and also turn on the following tunables:
>         hw.cbb.debug=1
>         hw.pccard.cis_debug=1
>         hw.pccard.debug=1
>         hw.cardbus.cis_debug=1
>         hw.cardbus.debug=1
> in /boot/loader.conf and post the dmesg here (or a pointer to it), in
> addition to cc'ing me.  My wife is expecting any day now, so I might
> suddenly disappear for a couple of weeks.  There are others here that
> can help you out, however, if you post this basic information.
>
> Warner
>
> In message: <80f4f2b20609291227u422291b6ucfc1d7b38a1c2a3e at mail.gmail.com>
>             "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41 at gmail.com> writes:
> : I have a pccard wireless NIC, and I know it comes up and runs in
> : Knoppix, but in FreeBSD, it is troubled. It is reported to work on one
> : website, using NDIS, but I don't get far enough to make use of it.
> : After some testing, I suspect it's the notebook not recognizing the
> : pccard slot.
> :
> : - The cards diagnostic light blinks green and then goes off when inserted
> : - The card information does not appear in dmesg after insertion
> : - The card appears to work fine in knoppix
> : - I'll have a friend with some spare pccards come over tomorrow - her
> : cards work on her BSD box just fine, just to verify if it's card or
> : card controller.
> :
> : My question, the system is a Toshiba Satellite A105-4001. It is an
> : i850/ICH7 based machine. What's the best way to see what the pccard
> : device is, and figure out how to get it working?
> :
> : My main test that leaves me suspicious, I booted the machine with the
> : card and ran the following commands:
> : $ ls /dev > IL-dev
> : $ dmesg > IL-dmesg
> : $ pciconf > IL-pciconf
> :
> : Next, I rebooted it without the card:
> : $ ls /dev > I-dev
> : $ dmesg > I-dmesg
> : $ pciconf > I-pciconf
> :
> : Next I diff'ed the IL files with their matching I files, the only
> : difference that popped up with dmesg with the 'Timecounter "TSC"
> : frequency [...]. entry, which to my knowledge, should not be related
> : to the problem at all.
> :
> : Any suggestions?
> :
> : Thanks,
> : -Jim Stapleton
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