Weird thing - pciconf reading differs in two systems

Milan Obuch current at dino.sk
Wed May 17 00:59:45 PDT 2006


On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:59, David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > This makes me wonder - how could the same card be identified as two
> > different devices? I tested the same card, then another one and the
> > result is the same. Working in my tablet, not working in WRAP. There is
> > one difference, however - kernel in WRAP has ath built-in, in my tablet I
> > am kldloading it.
>
> Could be loose connections in the WRAP - if some of the pins are not
> connected properly that could result in 0xff showing up in various
> places (or worse).
>
> 	David.
>

I do not think it's the case. I did test it with two boards, in three slots. 
Were it loose connector, it would not be for any combination of card/slot on 
WRAP, but not else. I will try it once more, on some other machine/other 
boards and we'll see the result.

Milan

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