Re: Cardbus not working for 3com 656B netcard
From: Dave McCammon (davemac11_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/15/04
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:16:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Davon Shire <davon@shires.org>
--- Davon Shire <davon@shires.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> back in the days of 5.1.xxx my 3com CFM656B
> (That's not the exact model
> number sorry but it's in my machine at home at the
> moment.) worked
> beautifully. I had changed to the 5.1 branch of
> FreeBSD because finally I
> could use something other than a ratty Linksys
> 10mbps pccard in my laptop.
> I cvsup'd religeously and the world built well
> (usually) and the kernels
> kernelled and I was a righteous FreeBSD guru. But
> then.. 5.2.1 hit and my
> 3com netcard no longer functioned. I searched high
> and low for fixes,
> answers cvsup every chance I had and never once did
> the card work again.
> Everything shows normal in the dmesg but the bus
> never resets and the system
> can't get the station address. I checked interrupts
> and the card bus is
> there sharing life with the pccard interface at irq
> 10.
> If I'm using 5.1 of the OS (which I reinstalled
> the other day because i'm
> trying to get my new Linksys wifi card running) the
> 3com works and data
> flows at a reasonable rate.
> Does anyone know of a fix for the cardbus since
> that's the only thing I can
> find that seems like it's out of wack? same hardware
> works fine with 5.1 but
> 5.2> is toiletville.
> My 10mbps linksys card still works but it is a 16
> bit pccard and nothing and
> no cards that I have that are 32bit cardbus work at
> all.
> This is on a IBM Iseries thinkpad 1141. It's been
> my main work horse since I
> bought it in 2000.
> Please help make a ratty old laptop useful again.
> I'll do what I can to
> provide information to get this problem fixed. Since
> I see current is now
> trying to breath life into FreeBSD-6.0 and I would
> hate to see this problem
> continue.
> Thank you in advance for everything.
>
> Sincerely
> Davon
If you are getting dmesg errors similar to
kernel: cbb0: cbb_power: 0V
kernel: cbb0: bad Vcc request. ctrl=0xf000ff00,
status=0xf000e2c3
kernel: cbb_power: 0V
Try this patch ?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-September/004726.html
I have a 3com575B that quit working after going to 5.3
beta from 5.2.1. The above patch made it work again.
Here is another that may help.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=66848
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