Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? Done. 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? Will do. Dave -- Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? Will do. If apm is disabled, the 3 March 2010 snapshot hangs at the same place in the boot process as 4.6-release does. I _am_ going to try upgrading the BIOS, but that takes a fair amount of fiddling since Sony's tools won't work unless I restore the original Windows ME setup. Luckily I inherited the 'recovery' disks along with the notebook and, for now, this is a test system with no data on it. Dave -- Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Dave Anderson wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Maybe you can try using acpi? by disabling apm in UKC or via config(8)? Given the various mentions recently on this list, I should have thought of trying that even though it's not (to me) an obvious connection. I'll give it a try. Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. [Typed by hand] UKC disable apm UKC quit Continuing... mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/13/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd878, SMBIOS rev 2.31 @ 0xd8010 (38 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version R0211U0 date 03/13/01 bios0: Sony Corporation PCG-FX120(UC) [up to here, same as with apm enabled] apm at bios0 function 0x15 not configured acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP BOOT acpi0: wakeup devices PWRB(S5) CRD0(S3) CRD1(S3) LAN_(S3) EC0(S5) COMA(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) MODE(S3) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits [then it hung, with occasional disk activity for a while; eventually it just sat there for as long as I was willing to wait -- several minutes, mostly while copying the dmesg info to paper] If anyone would like to know more about this, just tell me how to get whatever information you want. Dave -- Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
Dave wrote: Unfortunatly that resulted in a system that wouldn't boot. Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? -Bryan.
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
I wrote: Well that is indeed quite unfortunate, sorry, but maybe you can send acpidump(8) output to dm...@? 4.7 is near release, can you try a 4.7-beta snapshot? -Bryan. One more thought, try updating the BIOS.. it seems Sony has released updates for your laptop. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=PCG-FX120 -Bryan.
Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg below, and sent to dm...@openbsd.org). Now I want to add WiFi and a working modem to it and, based on looking through the dmesg and the man pages for 802.11 device drivers, there are a couple of issues I'd like to understand better before buying anything. I'd appreciate either direct answers or pointers to places which discuss this that I haven't found. (I've done some searching of the mailing list archives, but my search-fu is not strong.) Any general comments on using pcmcia vs cardbus vs USB for WiFi or a modem are also welcome. After I've narrowed the list of possible devices I plan to do more specific searching of the mailing-list archives. The system has two pcmcia/cardbus slots and 2 USB ports. What seem to me to be the relevant dmseg lines and the questions they raise are: pcmcia pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd/16384 pcic0 controller 0: Intel 82365SL rev 1 has sockets A and B pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled This appears to be fully functional. cardbus cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect this.) USB uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 9 uhci1 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 Most of the man pages for USB 802.11 drivers mention USB 2.0; at least one specifically states that USB 1.0 is not supported. Other than actually trying each one, how can I tell which of them will work with USB 1.0? Thanks for any help. Dave OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class) 696 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 333475840 (318MB) avail mem = 313233408 (298MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/13/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd878, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xd8010 (38 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version R0211U0 date 03/13/01 bios0: Sony Corporation PCG-FX120(UC) apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd860/0x7a0 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 (Intel 82371FB ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xc000 0xd8000/0x4000! 0xdc000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82815 Host rev 0x11 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel 82815 Video rev 0x11 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xf800, size 0x400 ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 mem address conflict 0x13f0/0x1000 mem address conflict 0x13f01000/0x1000 TI TSB43AA22 FireWire rev 0x02 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 Intel 82562 rev 0x03, i82562: irq 9, address 08:00:46:14:eb:5a inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801BAM LPC rev 0x03: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 Intel 82801BAM IDE rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: HITACHI_DK23BA-10 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9590MB, 19640880 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: TOSHIBA, DVD-ROM SD-C2502, 1513 ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 9 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 Intel 82801BA SMBus rev 0x03: irq 5 iic0 at ichiic0 uhci1 at pci0 dev
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg below, and sent to dm...@openbsd.org). Now I want to add WiFi and a working modem to it and, based on looking through the dmesg and the man pages for 802.11 device drivers, there are a couple of issues I'd like to understand better before buying anything. I'd appreciate either direct answers or pointers to places which discuss this that I haven't found. (I've done some searching of the mailing list archives, but my search-fu is not strong.) Any general comments on using pcmcia vs cardbus vs USB for WiFi or a modem are also welcome. After I've narrowed the list of possible devices I plan to do more specific searching of the mailing-list archives. USB 802.11 devices work well and are inexpensive. The man pages provide specific brands with model numbers. apropos wireless and then man the drivers to find one you like. I've had good experience with rum and run based devices. Brad The system has two pcmcia/cardbus slots and 2 USB ports. What seem to me to be the relevant dmseg lines and the questions they raise are: pcmcia pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd/16384 pcic0 controller 0: Intel 82365SL rev 1 has sockets A and B pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled This appears to be fully functional. cardbus cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect this.) USB uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 9 uhci1 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 Most of the man pages for USB 802.11 drivers mention USB 2.0; at least one specifically states that USB 1.0 is not supported. Other than actually trying each one, how can I tell which of them will work with USB 1.0? Thanks for any help. Dave OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class) 696 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 333475840 (318MB) avail mem = 313233408 (298MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/13/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd878, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xd8010 (38 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version R0211U0 date 03/13/01 bios0: Sony Corporation PCG-FX120(UC) apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd860/0x7a0 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 (Intel 82371FB ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xc000 0xd8000/0x4000! 0xdc000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82815 Host rev 0x11 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel 82815 Video rev 0x11 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xf800, size 0x400 ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 mem address conflict 0x13f0/0x1000 mem address conflict 0x13f01000/0x1000 TI TSB43AA22 FireWire rev 0x02 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 Intel 82562 rev 0x03, i82562: irq 9, address 08:00:46:14:eb:5a inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801BAM LPC rev 0x03: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 1 Intel 82801BAM IDE rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: HITACHI_DK23BA-10 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9590MB, 19640880 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
Dave wrote: Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect this.) Interrupts are important, it won't be very useful without them.. not even partly. Maybe you can try using acpi? by disabling apm in UKC or via config(8)? Seems a lot of people are experiencing issues with CardBus on some laptops, have seen various CardBus disabled messages in dmesg's lately. -Bryan.
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brad Tilley wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed 4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg below, and sent to dm...@openbsd.org). Now I want to add WiFi and a working modem to it and, based on looking through the dmesg and the man pages for 802.11 device drivers, there are a couple of issues I'd like to understand better before buying anything. I'd appreciate either direct answers or pointers to places which discuss this that I haven't found. (I've done some searching of the mailing list archives, but my search-fu is not strong.) Any general comments on using pcmcia vs cardbus vs USB for WiFi or a modem are also welcome. After I've narrowed the list of possible devices I plan to do more specific searching of the mailing-list archives. USB 802.11 devices work well and are inexpensive. The man pages provide specific brands with model numbers. apropos wireless and then man the drivers to find one you like. I've had good experience with rum and run based devices. But do they work with USB 1.0, since that's the only USB I've got on this system? Most of the man pages say they support USB 2.0 (both rum and run do), though only one or two specifically state that 1.0 won't work. Thanks, Dave The system has two pcmcia/cardbus slots and 2 USB ports. What seem to me to be the relevant dmseg lines and the questions they raise are: pcmcia pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd/16384 pcic0 controller 0: Intel 82365SL rev 1 has sockets A and B pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled This appears to be fully functional. cardbus cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect this.) USB uhci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 9 uhci1 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 Intel 82801BA USB rev 0x03: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 Intel UHCI root hub rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 Most of the man pages for USB 802.11 drivers mention USB 2.0; at least one specifically states that USB 1.0 is not supported. Other than actually trying each one, how can I tell which of them will work with USB 1.0? Thanks for any help. Dave OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class) 696 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,SER,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 333475840 (318MB) avail mem = 313233408 (298MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/13/01, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd878, SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xd8010 (38 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version R0211U0 date 03/13/01 bios0: Sony Corporation PCG-FX120(UC) apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd860/0x7a0 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdf30/176 (9 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:31:0 (Intel 82371FB ISA rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xc000 0xd8000/0x4000! 0xdc000/0x4000! cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 82815 Host rev 0x11 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 Intel 82815 Video rev 0x11 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xf800, size 0x400 ppb0 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI rev 0x03 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 mem address conflict 0x13f0/0x1000 mem address conflict 0x13f01000/0x1000 TI TSB43AA22 FireWire rev 0x02 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured cbb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt cbb1 at pci1 dev 2 function 1 Ricoh 5C476 CardBus rev 0x80: couldn't map interrupt fxp0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 Intel 82562 rev 0x03, i82562: irq 9, address 08:00:46:14:eb:5a inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82562ET 10/100 PHY, rev. 0 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 Intel 82801BAM LPC rev 0x03: 24-bit timer at 3579545Hz pciide0
Re: Advice requested on modem WiFi for old notebook
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Brynet wrote: Dave wrote: Since I didn't see any not configured messages for cbb*, my guess is that this is at least partly functional; is that correct? What limitations does the couldn't map interrupt message imply for WiFi or modem use? (There don't seem to be any BIOS options which affect this.) Interrupts are important, it won't be very useful without them.. not even partly. Interrupts are absolutely vital in many cases, but in some (much less likely these days) they really don't matter much. Since I'm not familiar with the details of cardbus or WiFi adapters, I don't know how much they matter here. (Though I strongly suspect that you're right.) Maybe you can try using acpi? by disabling apm in UKC or via config(8)? Given the various mentions recently on this list, I should have thought of trying that even though it's not (to me) an obvious connection. I'll give it a try. Seems a lot of people are experiencing issues with CardBus on some laptops, have seen various CardBus disabled messages in dmesg's lately. Thanks, Dave -- Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com
