It occurred to me to include my dmesg only after sending the message. Sorry for not providing this in the original email:
wi0: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 0x1400-0x143f,0x1000-0x107f mem 0x41000000-0x41000fff irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:04:e2:57:82:f7 wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 0.08.03 wi1: <PRISM2STA WaveLAN> port 0x1440-0x147f,0x1080-0x10ff mem 0x41080000-0x41080fff irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 wi1: 802.11 address: 00:04:e2:57:81:d8 wi1: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A wi1: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 0.08.03 ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Lockup on boot > If this list is not appropriate for this question, please direct me to the > correct one. > > I recently purchased 2 SMC2632 wireless PCI adapter cards, and put them in > my desktop machine, which is a really old Compaq Prolenia 5500, on which I > have FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 installed. The problem > I have is this: When I boot up, it freezes up after these two lines: > > pcib7: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard > pci7: <PCI bus> on pcib7 > > I eventually got the machine to boot by taking out both cards and booting up > normally. Then shutting down, putting both cards back in and starting up > again, at which time the machine boots without a problem. However, if I > need to reboot again, it will freeze after the same 2 lines, and I have to > take both cards out, reboot normally.... etc. This is consistant behavior. > It freezes at the same place if I just put 1 of the cards in, though I > haven't established any particular pattern with just 1 card, but I assume > it's the same as with both cards. > > I've done some research and I've already tried what is suggested in section > 2.1.6 of this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.4R/relnotes-i386.html > I've also looked for some PnP settings in my BIOS, but the machine was made > in the mid-90's, and doesn't have any PnP options that I can find. > > Any ideas/suggestions are appreciated. I was planning on buying a new box, > but wanted to check with this list to see if there was anything else I could > try. > > Thanks! > Aaron > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message