Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:55 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg? Message-ID: <539c60b90807241401ya3406bered41eeb9e941f797@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11167f520807241238q78a521b1kc5e3786428063e4a@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman@gmail.com> 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
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