Hmm... I have the same problem. But in addition to this one, when I have
cardbus enabled it no PCMCIA cards get detected at all.. I was waiting until
I figured this one out before I moved on to the cant get MAC address error.

Ryan

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From: current-users-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:current-users-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Brett Lymn
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 6:03 AM
To: current-users@netbsd.org
Subject: my wavelans hate my toshiba laptop...



Folks,
        I am the happy recipient of some wavelan silver wireless lan
cards.  The unfortunate thing is that they hate my Toshiba Tecra 700CT
laptop.  The wavelans work fine in my PPro/200 machine via a
ISA->PCMCIA bridge card (one that comes with the WebGear cards FWIW)
but in the laptop the driver complains that it cannot get the MAC
address of the card like this:

Apr  2 19:24:09 rover /netbsd: pcmcia0: CIS info: Lucent
Technologies,WaveLAN/IEEE, Version 01.01,
Apr  2 19:24:09 rover /netbsd: pcmcia0: Manufacturer code 0x156,product 0x2
Apr  2 19:24:09 rover /netbsd: pcmcia0: function 0: network adapter,ccr addr
3e0 mask 1
Apr  2 19:24:09 rover /netbsd: pcmcia0: function 0, config table entry1: I/O
card; irq mask ffff; iomask 6, iospace 0-3f; io16 irqpulse irqlevel
Apr  2 19:24:09 rover /netbsd: wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 port 0x380-0x3bf:
could not get mac address, attach failed

I did some digging in the if_wi.c and found that by putting some
delays around the register writes in wi_read_record I can get a mac
address back after a couple of goes which makes me wonder if there is
some odd timing problem with my laptop.  Do I hack the driver to put
delays around all the register reads/writes?  Any one got a better
idea?

BTW I have tried loading up the guff on my NT machine to try and
re-flash the cards but NT now does a BSOD soon after boot....sigh.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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