Testing Wildboar

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.

Wildboar Basic functionality problem

o The kernel does not up even in single user mode
We strongly suggest to check the configuration of your laptop on DOS. Please read WBRequirement.pod to know how to check it.

o The kernel up, but it freezes when I insert Card
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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Device Driver support problem

o Insert a card which is known to work, but it does not work
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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How to Configure Wildboar

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.

I/O configuration parameters

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

How Wildboar configure ports

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.