[issue1356] Xircom cardbus NIC (dc0) not working in 2.2.1

[Tim Darby]

ACPI is the culprit.  I've always had success using this card with
ACPI enabled, including under 2.0, so it didn't even occur to me to
disable it.  So something between 2.0 and 2.2 broke it, FYI.  Thanks!

Tim


On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau (via DragonFly issue
tracker) <bugs at crater.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
>
> Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Tim Darby <t+dfbsd at timdarby.net> wrote:
> > With a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop and a Xircom cardbus card, I cannot
> > connect to anything on the network.  DHCP will not assign an address
> > to the card and it won't connect if I manually configure the address
> > either.  This card was working in DF 2.0.  As you can see from the
> > attached dmesg, I get several "livelock messages" when this interface
> > is config'ed in rc.conf and I get the "dc0: watchdog timeout" message
> > every 5 seconds.  The xl0 built-in interface on the laptop works fine.
> >  Note that if I boot the latop without the card and then insert it, I
> > immediately get the message "intr 10 at 40001/40000 hz, livelocked
> > limit engaged!"
> >
> > I'm starting to get the feeling that I'm the only one that uses this
> > silly card with DFly.  Are you guys trying to tell me I should toss it
> > and buy a decent card? :-)
>
> It is probably not NIC related.  Did you try disabling ACPI?
>
> Best Regards,
> sephe
>
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