> Ok I see... > > So either this problem has got everyone stumped, i've > posted it to the wrong list or no one wants to > reply..... > > Anyone... ??? > > ZB
Note that I'm just a user running snv_78 (and various previous releases) on an older IBM T43p for which I have a Dock II (has a PCI slot, ata controller with slot for a disk/CD/DVD, cardbus slots, etc). I have NO idea if my experiences with a dock and solaris are in any way related to yours with your T60 and the dock for it. I'm a bit of a userland C and Fortran programmer but I have NO experience with drivers and hardware programming other than IEEE-488 devices (and only on SPARC for that as the manufacturer doesn't support IEEE-488 on Solaris x86). With Nevada and Solaris 10 Update 4, it appears that interrupts are not correctly allocated to devices in the dock. For example, the ata controller is "supported" according to recent versions of the Sun device detection tool as are the Cardbus controllers in the dock. However, Cardbus cards that work in the slot in the T43p do not work when plugged into the dock slots (Cardbus atheros based wifi abg adapter and firewire adapter). The ata controller is apparently recognized however, if a disk or CD/DVD device is plugged in at boot, I get timeout errors and the device is not usable. Using mdb to show interrupts does not show any assigned to the docking station ata controller but they are assigned to the T43p internal ata controllers. I also get ACPI parse errors both standalone and in the dock but more when in the dock. Maybe the pci docking bridge or some other bridge in the dock isn't being set up correctly but that is uninformed speculation on my part. The same thing happens with an elderly A21p with the dock for it with Nevada. Of interest is that with an older Solaris version (9 if I remember correctly) and a third party cardbus driver (purchased), the Cardbus slots in the dock worked! So something to do with configuring devices has changed with Solaris 10 and Nevada or the cardbus driver now in Solaris doesn't handle the dock bus bridge(s). I can't help with your problem, only pass on my experience with an older notebooks, docks, and Solaris x86. Hopefully someone can help you. I have posted about my problems and haven't found a solution yet ... Stuart This message posted from opensolaris.org
