From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 16 02:31:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 830E716A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:31:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A57843D3F for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:31:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 96A858567A; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:01:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:01:45 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Paul Hoffman Message-ID: <20041116023145.GB5867@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20041116013357.GS816@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20041116015821.GU816@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Want to use two PCCards on a laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:31:49 -0000 --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 18:09:17 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:28 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:45:42 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> At 12:03 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>>> On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:02:40 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >>>>> Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router under 4.10. I >>>>> have two PCcards that it recognizes, but when starting up, after >>>>> connecting to the first card, I get the message: >>>>> pccard0: Can no attach more than one child. >>>>> So, is this a limitation in the kernel that I can fix with a >>>>> re-build? Something in one of the config files that I haven't figured >>>>> out? Something that is fixed in 5.3? Or... ? >>>> >>>> This isn't a general problem. It must be related to your hardware, >>>> but you don't say what it is. >>> >>> Sorry; didn't realize it might be relevant. Dell Inspiron 3500. >>> FreeBSD is definitely seeing both cards; it responds nicely when I >>> eject either of the cards. It just won't do anything useful when I >>> insert the second card. More clues appreciated! >> >> More information appreciated. People shouldn't have to ask you twice >> to know what cards you're using, or what the messages were. You might >> like to take a look at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. > > Doh! I saw "hardware" and I thought "computer". You are right, of course. > > 3Com EtherLink III, 3C569D > 3Com Megahertz, 3CCE589ET Can you borrow a different brand of card and see if that works? > The actual message seen in dmsg when putting in the second card is as above: > pccard0: Can no attach more than one child. > I can't get a file off the system yet, unfortunately, so I can't give > the full dmesg output. That would be helpful, preferably with a verbose debug. Can't you connect at least one of them? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBmWaRIubykFB6QiMRAtAuAJ4wQIfotLZPK4UQOrm+eu6Fk0FRhwCaA64X DIBwYAvejBM1OlgoIqdgU2M= =s63/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP--