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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron
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> >I have an Inspiron 7500, and I've used it with a number of different
> >cards, including Linksys, and I haven't had problems. I'd guess that
> >you have a card with slightly different ID, one which isn't in
> >pccard.conf.
>
> Nope. I've tried two different cards. One of them is a 3Com which
> is recognized by FreeBSD on every other machine with which I've
> used it. The problem seems to be with PCMCIA.
Power the machine down before booting FreeBSD. Windows leaves the pcic in
CardBus mode. Apart from this, all of the pcic's in currently-shipping
Inspirons are supported, and the inspiron BIOS leaves them in pcic mode at
power-up (but doesn't reset them when you reboot)
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