HP OmniBook 5500CT and PC Card controller with FreeBSD 6.1?

Thu May 25 13:41:42 PDT 2006

Hello,

I have an old but reliable laptop which has served me well with
FreeBSD for a number of years, doing server tasks, running FreeBSD. It
is a HP OmniBook 5500CT, and it got a 20GB disk a while back, as the
old 2.1GB (or was it 1.2GB? I don't remember anymore) was getting to
small.It doesn't have a cdrom, and uses a pccard for networking, but
works well. The machine has been running FreeBSD 4.x for a number of
years, and the last test I did was to install 4.11-release on it. Now
4.11 is retired, and I'm trying to get 6.1 working on it.

First problem: the pc card controller isn't detected (correctly) under
FreeBSD 6.1-release (it wasn't with FreeBSD 5.4 either), this means I
have no network to install from. The machine lacks any other "easy"
ways to install from as well: usb / firewire ports? no.  cdrom? no.
built in network card? no.
Ok, that leaves me with only one option: I take out the harddrive and
install on another machine.

BTW, I tried installing two slices; 6.1 on ad0s1, and 4.11 on ad0s2, but
apparantly the bios in the machine doesn't support this large hard
drives (20GB), because all i can see from the boot loader is ad0s1 (or
disk1s1* as it is called there).

Anyway, I now have a working 6.1-release installation, but no network.
This makes debugging, updates, etc. kinda hard to do.
 So I am interested in getting the PC card controller working if
possible.
Attached are dmesg and 'pciconf -lv' output (transferred via sneakernet
aka floppies)
If any other information is needed, I can mount the floppy again and
"sneaker" it out.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

-------------- next part --------------
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 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 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:32:43 UTC 2006
    root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium/P54C (133.32-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping = 12
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory  = 33554432 (32 MB)
avail memory = 23379968 (22 MB)
Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cpu0 on motherboard
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
pci0: <display, VGA> at device 2.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <bridge, PCI-PCMCIA> at device 3.0 (no driver attached)
pci0: <simple comms> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc9fff,0xca000-0xca7ff on isa0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) 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 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: <PNP0600> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0510> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 133324421 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
ad0: 19077MB <HITACHI DK23EA-20 00K5A0A2> at ata0-master PIO4
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
-------------- next part --------------
hostb0 at pci0:0:0:	class=0x060000 card=0x00000000 chip=0xc5571045 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'OPTi Inc.'
    device   = '82C557/8 Viper-M Pentium Bridge'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = HOST-PCI
isab0 at pci0:1:0:	class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0xc5581045 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'OPTi Inc.'
    device   = '82C558 Viper PCI to ISA Bridge with PnP'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-ISA
none0 at pci0:2:0:	class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00dc102c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Asiliant (Chips And Technologies)'
    device   = 'F65548 Flat Panel GUI Accelerator'
    class    = display
    subclass = VGA
none1 at pci0:3:0:	class=0x060500 card=0x00000000 chip=0x11001013 rev=0xe2 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Cirrus Logic'
    device   = 'CL-PD6729 PCI-to-PC Card host adapter'
    class    = bridge
    subclass = PCI-PCMCIA
none2 at pci0:4:0:	class=0x078000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01051004 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'VLSI Technology'
    device   = '82C147 IrDA Controller'
    class    = simple comms