Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 06:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: Rodney Salomon <rstunna1@yahoo.com> To: adaml@visimation.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card Message-ID: <20030328140247.50855.qmail@web20302.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <002b01c2f4be$1b22bc20$6f00000a@5adam5>
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No, no, no.... I need to/want to get FBSD on this notebook!!! When I check the dmesg, I see that pcic0 is recognized by "Ricoh Cardbus Bridge on IRQ 9. pcic1 is my Linksys card.... WTF is Ricoh Cardbus Bridge?? --- Adam Lofstedt <adaml@visimation.com> wrote: > I think it is a problem with the Sony not giving > access to the PC card. > I've tried similar things with the PCG-F series > notebooks and a variety > of different PC network cards, with no luck. > > I've tried without fail to use symantec ghost on the > F series, which > uses a DOS boot disk to boot to a DOS program that > uses the Network > card. On other machines such as Dells, Toshibas, > etc, it works just > fine, but on the Sony F series the NIC is never > detected. This was a > big clue to me that it must be some kind of hardware > limitation with the > Sony F series. > > I gave up trying to do anything with a Sony F series > and a network card > before an OS has fully booted up. > > That's just my experience, maybe someone else will > have a better answer > than me... > > Adam Lofstedt > ===== Look at all the pretty C shells! __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
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