Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 16:43:23 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Lots of PC-CARD problems Message-ID: <39681F0A.92AA140@quake.com.au>
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Ok, I have an IBM Think Pad I Series laptop... I installed FreeBSD 4.0 on it with no problems until it came to setting up network devices... I have 2 PC-CARD Ethernet cards in it and neither of them were detected by the install and I wasn't able to configure them. I continued without setting up the network and tried to do it manually, I enabled the PC-CARD option in /etc/rc.conf and set network settings. On rebooting I got 2 error messages from pccardc saying: pccardc: /dev/card0: Device not found pccardc: /dev/card0: Device not found So I then went and created them with /dev/MAKEDEV card0 After rebooting it gave me the error pccardc: /dev/card0: Device not configured pccardc: /dev/card0: Device not configured The Ethernet cards are a D-Link 10/100 and a Card Bus 10/100 (is that even a brand?) Looking though the pccard.conf.sample I see that a lot of D-Link cards are supported so it should work? I then complied a new kernel with 2 pccard slots configured and everything else the same as the GENERIC kernel, this made no difference and the same error on booting was given. I also noticed there was no PCCARD kernel config file like there used to be, so I don't know if there were more options I needed to put into the config file to make PC-CARD support work. When I try to start pccardd it gives the errors: fatal error: no PC-CARD slots fatal error: no PC-CARD slots I have looked though the online hand book and searched the documentation and mailing lists for "pccard" and "ethernet", but have been unable to find a solution or any instructions as to how exactly to get PC-CARDS working. There doesn't seem to be much documentation on it all. So I am now posting this message to the list in the hope that someone can give me some info on it... I am a bit of a newbie to FreeBSD so I am probably missing something really obvious that will make me look like an idiot :( Oh well thanks for any help in advance... I am also a bit of a newbie to these mailing lists, so I hope I have given the right info and doing this the right way, umm do replies come back to me or go to the list? Anyway my e-mail is: kaltorak@quake.com.au Thanks Heaps! Kal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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