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Date:      Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:49:40 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cardbus troubles on 5.2-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <200401062149.40990.sam@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <3FFB7DFA.1080601@centtech.com>
References:  <3FFB7DFA.1080601@centtech.com>

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On Tuesday 06 January 2004 07:33 pm, Eric Anderson wrote:
> I posted this to the -current mailing list earlier, and have mentioned
> it several times in the past, but no response.  Am I the only person
> having troubles here?  Cardbus used to at least fail gracefully (by not
> understanding what card was inserted) instead of bombing my network card
> (causing me to have to reboot).
>
> So here's the scoop - when I insert any cardbus card (but 16-bit pc
> cards are fine, and don't have the problem), it seems to try to detect
> it as a bge1 device, and destroys my working bge0 device (broadcom
> gigabit ethernet).  Here's the dmesg:
>

This is identical to the behaviour I see on my Dell i600m laptop.  Warner is 
aware of it and understands what the root cause is, but solving it is 
(apparently) a bit involved.

	Sam



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