Re: Xircom cardbus NIC (dc0) not working in 2.2.1

[Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Tim Darby <t+dfbsd@timdarby.net> wrote:
> With a Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop and a Xircom cardbus card, I cannot
> connect to anything on the network.  DHCP will not assign an address
> to the card and it won't connect if I manually configure the address
> either.  This card was working in DF 2.0.  As you can see from the
> attached dmesg, I get several "livelock messages" when this interface
> is config'ed in rc.conf and I get the "dc0: watchdog timeout" message
> every 5 seconds.  The xl0 built-in interface on the laptop works fine.
>  Note that if I boot the latop without the card and then insert it, I
> immediately get the message "intr 10 at 40001/40000 hz, livelocked
> limit engaged!"
>
> I'm starting to get the feeling that I'm the only one that uses this
> silly card with DFly.  Are you guys trying to tell me I should toss it
> and buy a decent card? :-)

It is probably not NIC related.  Did you try disabling ACPI?

Best Regards,
sephe

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