Thinkpad 570E and Cardbus errors

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 05:20:48 PDT 2006


On 4/21/06, andrew at xxxxxxxxxxx <andrew at xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm not entirely new to DflyBSD but I haven't kept any install of it on my PC
> for any length of time. I've been a follower of the project for some time and I
>         finally have a machine I think I can run dfly on full time, but.. I need
>         some help.
>
>         I'm currently trying to get it working on my Thinkpad
>         570E(circa 2000). The problem is that the cardbus throws some errors and I
>         can't get any of the PCMCIA cards to load. I had a similar problem with
>         FBSD but I solved it by running `sysctl hw.cbb.start_32_io=0x4000` and
>         re-inserting the card. I tried the same thing from the Dfly installCD but it
>         didn't seem to work. I'm a bit wary about wiping FBSD off this machine in
>         favor of dragonfly and have the cardbus not work at all.
>
>         I got the idea to run that command from this page:
>         http://www.ayukov.com/essays/freebsd-on-thinkpad-570.html
>
>         Any assistance much appreciated.
>
>         Andrew
>

Please try following patch (from joerg):
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/cbb-apr-09.diff

It should be applied cleanly to HEAD or PREVIEW

Best Regards,
sephe

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