From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 27 18:55:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99FFE37B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 18:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 80643 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Dec 2001 12:55:13 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.23 27-Nov-2001 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 23 days, 21 hrs X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:55:12 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard mystery under 4.4-R References: <200112232110.fBNLAPd31354@ptavv.es.net> In-reply-to: <200112232110.fBNLAPd31354@ptavv.es.net> of Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:10:25 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: | > From: Greg Black | > | > I've got my laptop to boot and install 4.4-R after following the | > magic hw.pcic.xxx incantations in the release notes and have had | > some success using a Compaq wireless network card while visiting | > a distant town. But recent attempts to get it to recognise a | > Xircom PCMCIA NIC have been unsuccessful. And now, whether the | > card is in the machine or not, I see the following during boot: | > | > pccard: card inserted, slot 0 | > pcic0: Static bug detected, ignoring hardware. | > | > And all attempts to talk to the card fail dismally. I have | > built a kernel with every potential driver installed. Am I | > looking at a hardware problem or a software issue? | | There was a problem with some Xircom cards in 4.4-Release. Can you | provide the model of the card? That might make it a bit easier to | figure out. | | In general, cards with '2' or 'B' in the model number don't work. The | '2' cards should work with stable or 4.5 when it comes out. Cards with | 'B' are CardBus cards and will not work any time soon. They will work | with CURRENT using NEWCARD, but running CURRENT is not for the weak at | heart. Windows-ME identifies it as: Xircom CE-!!ps Credit Card Ethernet Adaptor where the "!!" could be "11" or "ll" or "II" -- they used a stupid font that I can't interpret and I don't know how to extract the information from Windows as text. Perhaps this is something that equates to "2" in some way? There's no "B" in the Windows identifier. Needless to say, the card works just fine on my network under Windows on all the available laptops but is ignored under FreeBSD-4.4 ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message