From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 21:01:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08E81065675 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:01:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB09E8FC1A for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:01:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c8so1355635wra.27 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=L28PirhCLIZ6KIh4UH2ybcTY+mz/XJ7jOi7hH7AJGRs=; b=xhp6r7km8Fr07o6sl9nCQDR+giqRJ3rMKHvj51mcV/YPL2kZUYu/DtPORLe07o9UnA 914zTnkeUqMeYf7S7+FYiATOGe7nkStdqBYqBDj5FCSn0S6SkwxG9EZJb5TkaLWWDEWR oVsTjRisPH7gquuzfxsEHgdkCsoEiHLPp1U+Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=rmYWK70a7SBXk2NzDq9Xa6OMoycitLzzV5iClXEqC6kwrcPrFm8zVO8OxnqQuYavVZ Ob4DYE1kQl9EQSngBP9+HA6pgYm028aMzXg3kurIj8CUVurrEDj498zwN1FhZAIjtcmW JJmxrwSETsyMpy127e0VqMfzmJmV4qyXjtWjM= Received: by 10.100.41.4 with SMTP id o4mr1369693ano.34.1216933315821; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.50.13 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90807241401ya3406bered41eeb9e941f797@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:55 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "Sam Fourman Jr." In-Reply-To: <11167f520807241238q78a521b1kc5e3786428063e4a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <539c60b90807241005q6ba03cecia6a11c6f9ec6ca1a@mail.gmail.com> <20080724133225.0dd01e32@verizon.net> <539c60b90807241052t4f1c1be5w12c0997211f68159@mail.gmail.com> <20080724135644.08f303c4@verizon.net> <539c60b90807241121y7443e860o87334bc7b8fc258e@mail.gmail.com> <11167f520807241238q78a521b1kc5e3786428063e4a@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b70ac0d7c1cc3b7b Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: stevefranks@ieee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:01:57 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> No error messages to speak of. It's like it's not there. It works >> fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have mentioned earlier. >> Really hating having bought a compaq. > > does your PCMICA slot even work in FreeBSD, I have a Lenovo Notebook > that it doesn;t even work. > maybe try sending a Full dmesg if you could. > > Sam Fourman Jr. > Slot seems to work with a compact-flash adapter. dmesg looks normal if you stick in a compact flash. There is no dmesg output whatsoever when you put in a network card. I would assume HP put some nifty code in the bios to disable it, except it works under win32 & fedora. Since there's no NIC, I'm not enclosing a dmesg. Steve