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    There's a patch for broken dc (xircom, and others) from John Baldwin - want it ?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • C
      cmb
      last edited by

      Thanks MatSim. I merged that to give it a shot.

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        apfusertoo
        last edited by

        I can ship out a laptop + xircom cardbus cards to someone if they want to do some real testing.

        Alternatively, if you can provide some specific commands or test binaries to run, I can run them off of 2.1 on my local hardware…

        Thanks.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          I have laptops with cardbus slots and I seem to have two xircom cards: a CBE2-100 and a XEM5600. I have far too much obsolete hardware.  ::)
          Are either of those supported by this patch? Any specific tests?

          Steve

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            msi
            last edited by

            The best would be if the initial reporter could give feedback. :-)

            If you are now able to use these Xircom-based cards, well that would show that at least I didn't break anything with importing these patches.
            The last Notebook I saw with Cardbus slots, was Thinkpad T61 which had both Cardbus and Expresscard.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              Ok I'm running yesterdays snapshot 32bit (are there any 64bit machines with a cardbus?  ;)) live CD.

              
              [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(2): uname -a
              FreeBSD pfSense.localdomain 8.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Nov 26 07:11:24 EST 2012     root@snapshots-8_3-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  i386
              
              

              The CBE2 card does not work. Many 'unable allocate resources for CIS' errors during boot.
              The 'Realport' XEM5600 card work great.

              [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(3): ifconfig xe0
              xe0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
              	ether 00:10:a4:7a:59:8b
              	inet6 fe80::210:a4ff:fe7a:598b%xe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 
              	inet 192.168.111.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
              	nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
              	status: active</performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> 
              
              [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(2): dmesg | grep xe
              xe0: <xircom 10="" 100="" network="" +="" 56k="" modem="" pc="" card="">at port 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 function 0 config 39 on pccard1
              xe0: version 0x55/0x05, 100Mbps capable, with modem
              xe0: [ITHREAD]
              [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(3): sysctl -a | grep Xircom
              dev.xe.0.%desc: Xircom 10/100 Network + 56K Modem PC Card
              dev.xe.0.%pnpinfo: manufacturer=0x0105 product=0x110a cisvendor="Xircom" cisproduct="10/100 Network + 56K Modem PC Card" function_type=6</xircom> 
              

              It did throw a load of watchdog timeouts while I connected a cable but recovered gracefully.

              Oops, spoke too soon. I ran a pciconf -lv on it and now showing a stream of 'xe0: allignment error' messages on the console and is unaccessable.

              Steve

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Ok so in conclusion of the two Xircom cards I have one is supported by the xe(4) driver and works just about OK if you've pushed it into the slot hard enough.  ::)

                The other card tries to load the dc(4) driver and fails.

                
                dmesg|grep dc0
                
                dc0: <xircom 10="" x3201="" 100basetx="">port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0x88000000-0x880007ff,0x88001000-0x880017ff irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
                dc0: No station at address in CIS!
                device_attach: dc0 attach returned 6
                
                dmesg|grep cardbus
                
                cardbus0: <cardbus bus="">on cbb0
                cardbus1: <cardbus bus="">on cbb1
                cardbus0: Unable to allocate resource to read CIS.
                cardbus0: Unable to allocate resources for CIS
                cardbus0: Unable to allocate resource to read CIS.
                cardbus0: Unable to allocate resources for CIS</cardbus></cardbus></xircom> 
                

                I imagine there maybe a typo in that!

                This appears to be the long standing problem that the patch should have addressed. Wrong snapshot?  :-
                The combination of laptop and card work fine under Windows (98?) but I could easily believe it's a BIOS problem.

                Steve

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                  msi
                  last edited by

                  Nope, was my fault. JimP fixed a typo in the patches file which otherwise would have made the cardbus patch not apply.
                  The typo was introduced myself, sorry. Wait for the next builder run and test again…

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Working well now.  :)

                    [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(6): uname -a
                    FreeBSD pfSense.localdomain 8.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Tue Nov 27 11:33:39 EST 2012     root@snapshots-8_3-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  i386
                    [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(7): ifconfig dc0
                    dc0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                    	options=80008 <vlan_mtu,linkstate>ether 00:10:a4:8a:ba:87
                    	inet6 fe80::210:a4ff:fe8a:ba87%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 
                    	inet 192.168.111.5 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
                    	nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                    	status: active
                    [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(8): dmesg | grep Xircom
                    dc0: <xircom 10="" x3201="" 100basetx="">port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0x88000000-0x880007ff,0x88001000-0x880017ff irq 9 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
                    [2.1-BETA0][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root(9): sysctl dev.dc
                    dev.dc.0.%desc: Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX
                    dev.dc.0.%driver: dc
                    dev.dc.0.%location: slot=0 function=0
                    dev.dc.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x115d device=0x0003 subvendor=0x115d subdevice=0x0181 class=0x020000
                    dev.dc.0.%parent: cardbus0</xircom></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast> 
                    

                    Let me know if you want/need any other info. I don't think I'll be using the Sony F409 for anything else anytime soon. It was once the most expensive single thing I'd ever bought, now gathers dust in a pile of old laptops.  ::)

                    Steve

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                      apfusertoo
                      last edited by

                      Ok, I just tested out two xircom realport cards (R2BE-100) inside a Dell Latitude p3-900 and they both work great!

                      Not a lot of testing, but assigned IPs, made connections, and set up a few long scp transfers @ 1.4MB/s.

                      Not a single error, nothing on console, nothing in dmesg - looks perfect.

                      Thank you!

                      Now, moving forward, should I continue testing this as each new snapshot of 2.1 comes out, or is it safe to assume that this is fixed for good now ?

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                        msi
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for the feedbacks.
                        Checking back some time may be worthy still, in the case where patches/RELENG_8_3/from-8-STABLE/cardbus gets updates I'd say,
                        since 8.3-RELENG doesn't seem to receive much updates, only security.

                        Although it improves things - are there real consumers of CardBus devices in conjunction with pfSense out there these days?
                        Maybe I'm overlooking the use of laptops as low-power DYI plattforms instead of buying an embedded board…

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                          apfusertoo
                          last edited by

                          @MatSim:

                          Thanks for the feedbacks.
                          Checking back some time may be worthy still, in the case where patches/RELENG_8_3/from-8-STABLE/cardbus gets updates I'd say,
                          since 8.3-RELENG doesn't seem to receive much updates, only security.

                          Although it improves things - are there real consumers of CardBus devices in conjunction with pfSense out there these days?
                          Maybe I'm overlooking the use of laptops as low-power DYI plattforms instead of buying an embedded board…

                          laptop + xircom realports is a fantastic device.

                          I am looking at a device that has built-in KVM, three (!) physical, full size rj45 ports, and has its own built in UPS.

                          You really can't find a much more user friendly or versatile platform…

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                            msi
                            last edited by

                            Well, under that aspect, it makes quite it makes sense to pf(Sense) ;-)

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