thinkpad 560X and pcmcia

Tue Jul 14 19:23:14 UTC 2009

Hi,

I finally booted a linux floppy distro to check whether the pcmcia
slot was ok or not: it *is* working, as the dmesg output shows.

So it seems like I only have an IRQ assignement problem, which I don't
see how to solve. None of my attempts were sucessful (through
/boot/device.hints or /boot/loader.conf). So far, I have tried

On Mon Jul 13 2009 at 03:16:42PM +0200, Vicknesan AYADURAI wrote:
> I've had similar weirdness with IBM ThinkPad PCMCIA slots before. The  
> first was with a ThinkPad 600, in going from FBSD5.4R->6.1R. I  
> eventually managed to get both ethernet cards on the two slots working, 
> and posted what I did here:
>
> http://arkiv.freebsd.se/?ml=freebsd-hardware&a=2006-08&t=2305543

which means having

hw.pci.link.LNKA.irq=11
hw.pci.link.LNKB.irq=11
hw.pci.link.LNKC.irq=11
hw.pci.link.LNKD.irq=11

in the appropriate file. However, the "link.LNK" syntax appears to be
ACPI related, and the thinkpad 560X does not support acpi.
I also tried this,

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2007-July/009950.html

which means

hw.pci0.2.INTB.irq="10"

but again the syntax does not seem to be recognized (10 or 11 or
anything else is irrelevant for that matter). sysctl with the previous
hw.* statement returns

sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.pci0.2.INTB.irq'

out of boredom, I even tried recompiling a kernel with the 

http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-mobile/200403/msg00130.html

patch, but it didn't make a difference....

So, how can I re-assign IRQs on my thinkpad 560X ? (since my previous
message I have enabled apm, which seems to work ok). the linux boot
below appears to assign IRQ 3 to the bottom pcmcia slot.

As mentioned by Vicknesan, I could always re-install freebsd 4.6, but
that strikes me as not being "the Right solution (tm)". I am willing
to experiment further, but any hints will be appreciated !

                           F.

---------------------linux dmesg---------------------------------
Linux version 2.4.36.2-rescue (root at debian) (gcc-Version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-15)) #1 Di 26. Feb 18:55:43 CET 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000005fd0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000005fd0000 - 0000000005fdf000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000005fdf000 - 0000000005fe0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
95MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 24528
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 20432 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: vga=normal noinitrd load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/fd0 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz 
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 231.778 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 462.02 BogoMIPS
Memory: 92952k/98112k available (2418k kernel code, 4772k reserved, 849k data, 124k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium MMX stepping 01
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:01.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.1
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
NTFS driver 2.1.6b [Flags: R/W].
udf: registering filesystem
SGI XFS with no debug enabled
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 256 devices)
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which is fairly inefficient!
NET3 PLIP version 2.4-parport gniibe at mri.co.jp
plip0: Parallel port at 0x3bc, not using IRQ.
pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend at alpha.franken.de
ThunderLAN driver v1.15
TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0  EISA: 0
dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
work_mode -> Autoselect
 <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:01.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: IBM-DTCA-24090, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 8007552 sectors (4100 MB) w/468KiB Cache, CHS=993/128/63
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
libata version 1.20 loaded.
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:56:51 Feb 26 2008
host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:01.2
host/usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9000, IRQ 11
host/usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
pegasus.c: v0.4.32 (2003/06/06):Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
usb.c: registered new driver pegasus
rtl8150.c: rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver v0.4.3 (2002/12/31)
usb.c: registered new driver rtl8150
catc.c: v2.8 CATC EL1210A NetMate USB Ethernet driver
usb.c: registered new driver catc
kaweth.c: Driver loading
usb.c: registered new driver kaweth
CDCEther.c: CDCEther.c: 0.98.6 7 Jan 2002 Brad Hards and another
usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther
usb.c: registered new driver usbnet
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
   8regs     :   254.400 MB/sec
   32regs    :   200.000 MB/sec
   pII_mmx   :   354.000 MB/sec
   p5_mmx    :   416.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: p5_mmx (416.000 MB/sec)
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Insert inittar floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
VFS: Mounted root (tmpfs filesystem).
INITTAR: lzma compressed image found
RAMDISK: LZMA lc=3,lp=0,pb=2,dictSize=8388608,origSize=3911680
LZMA initrd by Ming-Ching Tiew <mctiew at yahoo.com> ............................................................<5>TAR: extracted 7640 blocks
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
fuse init (API version 7.5)
fuse distribution version: 2.5.3
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:03.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:02.1
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x0698, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000010
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:80:C8:8C:5B:39