Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:27:02 +0200 From: Maksym Marchenko <marchenk@in.tum.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wireless - troubles Message-ID: <40FE8B46.5020807@in.tum.de> References: <40FE7221.6050002@in.tum.de> <200407210948.13702.algould@datawok.com>
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Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:39 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote: > >>Hi! >> >> >>I have a Siemens 510 laptop with 128 MB RAM and 4GB HDD. >>It has no Network card onboard. So I have only wireless pccard >>ORiNOCO Silver. >>I had before Intel Wireless/PRO 2011B. This one was bad (for FreeBSD) >>Now I have ORiNOCO, but I can't make it working. >>It works in Linux, but I want FreeBSD. >>I have compile new kernel, but it says: >>CIS is too long - truncating! >>pccard0: Card has no functions! >>cbb0: PC Card card activation failed >> >>Can anybody say, what must I doing? >> >>Thanks in advance. > > > Look for information regarding your laptop brand/model, or similar > models, at: > > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ > > What version of FreeBSD are you running? I'm not familiar with the > laptop; but FreeBSD 5.* has problems with many of the older pcmcia > slots. If you're running FreeBSD 5.*, consider: > > 1. recompiling the kernel using the OLDCARD kernel configuration file. > 2. If ACPI is enabled, try booting with it disabled. (If it's disabled, > try booting with it enabled.) > 3. You might also consider changing to FreeBSD 4.10, the production > version of FreeBSD. I was already at http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ I'm running 5.2 , I had 4.9, bat it was the same trouble. May be 4.10 is better that way ... I've not found a reference about including OLDCARD during kernel compiling. How can I do that?
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