3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B Multifunction Card Not Working

[Nikolas Britton]

linguae at lycos.com wrote:

>Hello. I have problems trying to get my multifunction 3Com Megahertz 
>3CXEM556 B Ethernet/56K Modem PCMCIA card working on FreeBSD 5.1 on 
>my Compaq Armada 7400.  The card works perfectly (as far as the modem 
>part, can't test the ethernet portion) on Windows 98 SE. Whenever I 
>try to configure PPP for my card on FreeBSD, when I type the dialing 
>commands (such as at, atdt, etc.), the output on the screen would 
>either be jarbled or won't appear at all.
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Hey, also, when you get this resolved (or if you don't) write it up at 
the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List:
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=laptop_submit_form
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=pcmcia_submit_form

and updating to 5.3 might be a good idea too.

>Here is my dmesg output:
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003
>     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0689000.
>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 266677223 Hz
>CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (266.68-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x652  Stepping = 2
>   
>Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
>real memory  = 67067904 (63 MB)
>avail memory = 58134528 (55 MB)
>Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>npx0: INT 16 interface
>pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
>Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f0970
>pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard
>pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.1 on pci0
>pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
>pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>cbb0: <TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x7fffe000-0x7fffefff irq 11 at 
>device 12.0 on pci0
>cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
>pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
>cbb1: <TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0x7ffff000-0x7fffffff irq 11 at 
>device 12.1 on pci0
>cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
>pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 14.0 on pci0
>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>atapci0: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 
>0x1000-0x100f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 14.1 on pci0
>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0x44080000-0x44080fff irq 
>11 at device 14.2 on pci0
>usb0: OHCI version 1.0
>usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting
>usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0: (0x0e11) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>eisa0: <EISA bus> on motherboard
>mainboard0: <DH at 0000 (System Board)> on eisa0 slot 0
>pmtimer0 on isa0
>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
>kbd0 at atkbd0
>psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
>fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port 
>0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>sio0: type 16550A
>sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x200
>sio1: port may not be enabled
>sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>sio1: type 16550A
>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
>unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <SMCf010> can't assign resources (port)
>Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>ep0: <3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B> at port 0x100-0x10f irq 11 function 
>0 config 7 on pccard0
>ep0: eeprom failed to come ready.
>device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6
>sio4: <3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B> at port 0x110-0x117 irq 11 function 
>1 config 39 on pccard0
>sio4: type 16550A with a bogus IIR_TXRDY register
>sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
>ad0: 4108MB <IBM-DKLA-24320> [8905/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSDMA
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a
>
>
>I did read the ep man page; it did say that my card was "wedged" 
>(which, according to the Jargon File, means that the card doesn't 
>really work). I also used Google to see if other people had problems 
>with the same card, but I didn't find any solutions at all.  What do 
>I need to do in order to get my PCMCIA card working properly?  I am 
>relatively new to FreeBSD, so I don't really know where to go from 
>here.  Thanks in advance.
>
>-linguae
>
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