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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:39:22 +0300
From:      "Artyom Taryanik" <assa@bigline.kharkov.ua>
To:        "SMITH,DAVE (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <dave_smith4@hp.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: WaveLAN IEEE driver over ISA to PCMCIA Adapter Card
Message-ID:  <021201c0c893$161b27c0$4800a8c0@assa>
References:  <6BD67FFB937FD411A04F00D0B74FE8787EB5D1@xrose06.rose.hp.com>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: SMITH,DAVE (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dave_smith4@hp.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:06 AM
Subject: WaveLAN IEEE driver over ISA to PCMCIA Adapter Card


> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am have a problem with 4.2 FreeBSD release installing a
> WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 Silver card (bought from Lucent) with a
> ISA to PCMCIA Adapter (bought from Lucent).
> 
> I believe that the problem is related to the ISA to PCMCIA 
> adapter card that I am using. 
> Here is my configuration....
> 
> HP Netserver E-40
> 200MHZ Pentium Pro
> 64MB of RAM
> 2.0GB Hard Disk
> ISA to PCMCIA Adapter (bought from Lucent)
> WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 Silver card (bought from Lucent)
> PC-100 Extender card (for diagnostics)
> 
> The system starts up fine and runs great, I just don't get the 
> WaveLAN card to be identified. There are no system crashes or
> anything like that. I do get the following errors as a result
> of the pccard_enable="YES" which I added to enable Pccard services.
> 
> pccardd: /dev/card0 Device not configured.
> pccardd: /dev/card1 Device not configured.
> 
> I believe that I have got to solve this problem first before moving
> any further. As far as I can tell, using the PC-100 Extender Card,
> power is never applied to the WaveLAN card. So I don't see how it
> can be detected until I can get the power enabled.
> 
> I am not sure what the following message means aside from the obvious.
> 
> pccardd: /dev/card0 Device not configured.
> 
> I believe that it means that the ISA to PCMCIA bridge has not been
> configured properly and therefore the /dev/card0 cannot be configured
> properly because the system cannot see the PCMCIA bridge setting on
> the ISA bus. Any ideas? Perhaps the ISA to PCMCIA bridge is not 
> supported on FreeBSD!
> 
> I have device isa in the GENERIC configuration file which I copied to
> my own file for editing purposes and rebuilt the kernel based on my
> copy. I also have device card, device pcic0, device pcic1 and device wi
> in the configuration file. All of those things were part of the 4.2 
> FreeBSD release GENERIC configuration. Only pccard was not enabled. 
> in /etc/rc.conf (I think) The system that I am working with is not
> available to inspect to get the exact file name. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Dave Smith
> 
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