Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 04:34:16 +0500 From: "Iain Dooley" <iain_dooley@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Enabling PCCARD When Installing From Floppies - FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <BAY15-F1754099959B514562708268B5F0@phx.gbl>
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I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE via FTP using boot floppies from: ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/floppies/ on an IBM thinkpad using an "Orinoco Gold" wireless LAN card (which uses the wi driver) in the PCMCIA slot of the thinkpad. the boot process is happening normally, however the power light of the card is not coming on and the wi interface is not showing up in the network interface list of sysinstall. i have tested the card in a windows laptop and it appears to be functioning correctly. in the 'options' menu of sysinstall, the "Skip PCCARD" option is set to 'No' and when i attempt to rescan devices, and do pnpscan, the card does not show up. i did lsdev from the command line but could not see the PCCARD slot (i'm not sure if it should show up there anyway). i tried the installation process with the 4.10-RELEASE floppies, and the PCCARD slot was detected and sysinstall went through an initialisation process. this does not occur with the 5.3-RELEASE floppies and i can't see the pccard device in the boot messages. is there a way that i can view the boot messages from sysinstall so that i can be sure? i would assume that since the PCCARD slot is detected by the 4.10 floppies and not the 5.3 floppies that the PCCARD slot itself is functioning correctly (a message also appears with the 4.10 floppies that says a card is inserted in pccard slot 0). the card itself does not show up as an interface using the 4.10 floppies. i hope i've provided enough information for someone to shed some light on this situation. if not, please let me know what more i can do to help you to help me!! cheers iain _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
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