> Jamie McKnight wrote: > >>The above mentioned experiment (setting BASE0 to 0) works. I am able to >>see the wifi card, and I was even successful in getting it configured and >>talking on the network. >> >> >> > Great. > >>For the short term, is there a way to set BASE0 to 0 at system startup? >> >> > I don't know a way other than kmdb. > >>For the longer term, what other data can I provide or what else can I do >>to help in getting a more supportable fix? >> >> >> > To come up with a solution, we need to find out who put 0x0c000000 > there, BIOS or Newboot. > > So in the output of prtconf -pv, what is the 'assigned-addresses' > property for the cardbus bridge (You may search 060700 for that node) ? >
assigned-addresses: 82005010.00000000.0c000000.00000000.00001000 > You may file a bug for kernel/boot-x86, we can then discuss whether we > should handle this in Newboot. IMHO, even if it's a BIOS bug, we can > have a workaround in Newboot. If an assigned-address is an unreasonable > value, we can reprogram it. > I guess I will be filing a bug. Thanks again for the help. > Vincent. > >
