[laptop-discuss] ral wireless driver install causes dump/reboot

[Alexander Wallace]

Thank you very much. Let me know if there is anything I can do to change 
that...

I currently use an external Atheros card that i bought because i could 
not use the Ralink, but i rather use the internal one (the mini-pci ral)..

Thanks again!

Quaker Fang wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> See the result of "scanpci -v" you sent, we can find,
>
> ...
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x05 function 0x00: vendor 0x1814 device 0x0201
> RaLink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI
> CardVendor 0x1462 card 0x6833 (Micro-Star International Co., Ltd., 
> Card unknown)
>  STATUS    0x0410  COMMAND 0x0000
>                            ^^^^ the command register should NOT be 0, 
>                                 at least the second bit (MEM_EN) 
> should be 1.
>                                 this is the BIOS configuration problem 
> of you laptop.
>                                 I will try to find a way to fix this.
>
>  CLASS     0x02 0x80 0x00  REVISION 0x01
>  BIST      0x00  HEADER 0x00  LATENCY 0x00  CACHE 0x00
>  BASE0     0xffffe000  addr 0xffffe000  MEM
>  MAX_LAT   0x00  MIN_GNT 0x00  INT_PIN 0x01  INT_LINE 0x00
>  BYTE_0    0x01  BYTE_1  0x00  BYTE_2  0x02  BYTE_3  0x00
>
> ....
>
> -- 
> Quaker
>
> Alexander Wallace 已写入:
>
>> Thank you very much for the response.
>>
>> Since i don't know much of what you are doing with the mdb, i could 
>> not correct the command if it needed correction, so the output is as 
>> follows:
>>
>> debugging file 'vmcore.2' (object file)
>> mdb: invalid command '::msgbuf': unknown dcmd name
>>
>> I'm attaching the output of the other two commands...
>>
>> Again, thank you very much for your help.
>>
>> Quaker Fang wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> What's the output of the following commands running under directory
>>> /var/crash/<hostname>/
>>>
>>> mdb <number> <<EOF
>>> ::status
>>> $<msgbuf
>>> $C
>>> $q
>>> EOF
>>>
>>> where <number> is the one of those suffix numbers of vmcore.* (your 
>>> latest core dump).
>>> Please post the output here.
>>>
>>> Then, what's the output of "#/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" and "#prtconf 
>>> -v" ?
>>> Please post these here, then I can help to figure out.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Quaker
>>>
>>> Alexander Wallace:
>>>
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> I have a laptop with an RT2500 card and was very excited to see a 
>>>> driver for it in open solaris... I'm running svn 38, and 43... I 
>>>> tried installing it on both and in both cases, the computer (amd 64 
>>>> / 2 gig laptop) does a memory (or so it seems) dump and gets 
>>>> rebooted when running the post install scripts....
>>>>
>>>> Any clues?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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