Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:21:57 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cardbus activation failed Message-ID: <400D55A5.4040804@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org> References: <400D1CA7.8050304@jawa.at> <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org>
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Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 13:18:47 +0100, Michael Hollmann wrote: > > >>hi >> >> >>i am running FreeBSD 5.2 Release #0 on my laptop. my wlan card is >>"netgear WG512 Cardbus 32bit". i have no troubles to run this card under >>windows 2000 prof. but on FreeBSD 5.2 i get "cardbus activation failed". >> >>should this be fixed now ??? >> >> > >You haven't mentioned what kind of laptop you have. > >With my Dell Inspiron 8500, I can get things to work if I pull the card out >and re-insert it. > >It's just that the onboard ethernet then blows up if it is enabled. > > Same here with a Latitude D600 - I have a bge (broadcom) gig-e onboard. Any cardbus card inserted hoses it all up, and FreeBSD thinks I have two bge cards installed, and things go downhill from there. I think M. Warner Losh said he had some patches for this, but was waiting to commit or was waiting for time at least.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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