[WORKING] Dell Inspiron 5150 and PCMCIA lock ups

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at  2:24:47 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:15, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at  1:46:44 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>> I just got a new Dell Inspiron 5150 thinking it would be a nice
>>> replacement for my 8100.  So far, I'm not impressed.  The BroadCom
>>> BCM440x ethernet controller isn't supported, and everytime I insert a
>>> PCMCIA card, the machine locks.
>>
>> Heh.  Ditto, s/5150/5100/
>
> Follow-up!  James R. Higgins <sysop at bat21.net> suggested doing:
>
> hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
> hw.cbb.start_memory=0x30000000
>
> This fixed the hang, but I still wasn't able to use my PCMCIA cards.
> Removing the memory range sysctl got everything working beautifully.
> I'm on my wireless LAN as we speak.

I don't have the machine running yet, so I'm not sure what you're
talking about in the last paragraph.  Can you clarify what other
sysctls you used?

> Now, if only someone would crank out a BCM440x driver... ;-).

Read what I wrote below:

>> Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card.  See
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html
>> for more details.  Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page,
>> http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html, which
>> I haven't read yet.

Greg
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