Cardbus0: CIS pointer != 0 problem.

[John Merryweather Cooper]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> I have a colleague who installed FreeBSD 6.1-stable onto
> an Alienware MJ-12 laptop.  A verbose dmesg is at
> http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/alienware.dmesg
>
> We are trying to getting his wireless nic up, but seem to
> have run into a cardbus issue.  I've built a custom kernel
> and stripped out all unneeded device drives.  During boot,r
> we see
>
> cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0!
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=1000000
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=0
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=1c, size=1000000
> cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=24, size=80
> cbb alloc res fail
> found->	vendor=0x10de, dev=0x0299, revid=0xa1
> 	bus=2, slot=0, func=0
> 	class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
> 	cmdreg=0x0003, statreg=0x0010, cachelnsz=8 (dwords)
> 	lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0 ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
> 	intpin=a, irq=255
> 	powerspec 2  supports D0 D3  current D0
> 	MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>
> Has anyone seen this problem and do you have some recommendations
> to fix or work around the issue?
>
>   
This message most commonly comes up when the NIC/PCCARD is NOT supported
by a native FreeBSD driver.  For example:

cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0!
cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
ndis0: <Belkin 802.11g Network Adapter> mem 0xf6002000-0xf6003fff irq 11
at device 0.0 on cardbus0
ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.1
ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:11:50:7b:ba:b1

is the output for my Broadcom-based wireless NIC.  I use a WinDoze
driver and the ndis interface.

jmc