Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:05:20 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg? Message-ID: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com>
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The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in dmesg when I put it in pccard0/cbb0. If I stick a compact flash card in an adapter, however, it looks to work (haven't tried mounting it). Anyway, how do I even start to debug this, since I have no output? I notice one of the lights on the card flashes when I plug it in, but that could just be part of it's power-up process... Eventually, I plan to hack my bios to get a "unsupported network card" to run without locking up the bios boot process, but from what I've read, that's alot of work... Thanks, Steve
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