If your laptop is not listed in the ConfiguredLaptops, you may or
may not experience problem. This document tells you the problem area.
We also describes what kind of information is required by wildboar
team to help configure your laptop.
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o The kernel does not up even in single user mode
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We strongly suggest to check the configuration of your laptop on DOS.
Please read WBRequirement.pod to know how to check it.
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o The kernel up, but it freezes when I insert Card
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This is probably becase your laptop have extra hardware which prevent
Wildboar to work correctly. You need to configure Wildboar by boot
time parameters. Read following sections.
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o Insert a card which is known to work, but it does not work
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If you have some cards which work fine with your laptop, you need to
contact Wildboar team to help you configure the Kernel. This is
because with current version of Wildboar, some of the parameter is
hard-corded in the kernel and some of these parameter does not match
your card.
If you can't use any card, you probably need to configure Wildboar
in different way. Read following sections.
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If you don't understand following section, you need to talk with Wildboar
team to solve the problem. When you contact us, please include following
informations.
Boot off from BOOT1 in the Wildboar kit. You'll be asked to select
your laptop type. By selecting '?', the boot loader shows several
information which require to configure the wildboar like this:
[ This is properly configured HiNote Ultra parameters ]
Boot: -show
APM parameters:
APM is enabled. Version 1.1. flags 0x13
32cseg 0xf000 32coff 0x84fe 16cseg 0xf000 16dseg 0xf000 err 0x0
Reserved IRQ: 15
Reserved I/O port: 0x388-0x38f,0x398-0x39f,0x3b0-0x3bf
ISA I/O memory status:
0xa0000 - 0xc7fff : used
0xc8000 - 0xcbfff : free
0xcc000 - 0xcffff : used
0xd0000 - 0xeffff : free
0xf0000 - 0xfffff : used
Wildboar try to detect memory hole which is available to map PCMCIA
device memory onto. But since there are shadow ROM or such exists, and
it is not always visible to Wildboar, it sometimes fail to detect the
(Real) memory hole. If so, you need to tell the Wildboar to mark that
area reserve for system and not by Wildboar. You can tell Wildboar by
'-disableiomem AREA' command.
Same for IRQ or I/O port. For example, if your laptop have sound device
built-in, and the device is NOT supported by the Kernel, your Kernel
will not reserve the port. So Wildboar may use I/O area. In this case,
you should avoid using that I/O area by '-disableport IO' command.
See WBBoot for description of boot time commands.