From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Feb 20 4:45:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B51537B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 04:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1KCj3421458; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:45:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:45:03 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: John Utz Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why would my laptop suddenly start failing to probe pccards? Message-ID: <20020220074503.A21424@blackhelicopters.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from john@utzweb.net on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:19:21AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've seen this before. The solution was an utterly cold shutdown between Win & FreeBSD. Shut off the power, completely; not standby mode, not suspend, not booting, not sitting at the BIOS screen, cold shutdown. Go get a cup of coffee. Sip your coffee and hit the power button. Win will occasionally leave the PC Cards in a slightly scrambled state. IIRC, this has come up before... should it be a FAQ? On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:19:21AM -0600, John Utz wrote: > hi; > > it's the stupidest dang thing. > > this laptop has been running 4.4-RELEASE swimmingly for months now. > > the only thing that may have been unusual is that i may have popped the > cards out while in win98se without shutting them down first. > > now despite numerous bootings back and forth beteen freebsd and win98se, > it's lost the ability to parse the CIS in freebsd, and i get the infamous > "(null)""(null)" for my plain ol' 3com 574bt. > > the computer is an hp800ct and the cardbus controller is the TI > PCI1131,pcinum 0xac15104c > > suggestions appreciated! > > tnx! > > johnu > > -- > > John L. Utz III > john@utzweb.net > > Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message