Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:16:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Karl Swartz <kls@ohare.chicago.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: HP OmniBook and pccardd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809211415390.11562-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809190835.BAA20683@ohare.chicago.com>
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Karl Swartz wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get my HP OmniBook 800CT to recognize a modem or an
> > > Ethernet card (even better, both!) in the PCMCIA slots. No matter
> > > what I put in, I get
> > >
> > > pccardd[50]: No card in database for ""("")
> >
> > Use the other PCCARD slot. You have the same problem my machine has, or
> > it's a bug in pccardd. if you do a 'pccardc dumpcis' you'll see that Slot
> > 0 has a terminator on it -- pccardd won't read past that to the other
> > slot.
>
> I had a card in each slot. I also tried moving them around. After a
> few reboots, FreeBSD saw the cards, but hadn't a clue what to do with
> a 3Com 3C389D. I tried the PAO mods, which have been working reasonably
> nicely.
>
> However, after a while, it stopped recognizing the existence of the
> PCMCIA cards again. Rebooting into Lose/95 (alas, I have a need to
> dual-boot my poor laptop) brought the cards to life on one occasion,
> but on other occasions FreeBSD still cannot see the cards even after
> the Micro$loth loader (I can't bear to call it an OS) has recognized
> them successfully.
>
> Any other ideas?
HP has this bad habit of designing totally twisted PCCARD controllers. I
think you're going to have to live with it.
Doug White
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