From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 16 19: 0:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from axon.jccc.net (axon.jccc.net [198.248.50.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6090715225 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd@axon.jccc.net) Received: from localhost (fbsd@localhost) by axon.jccc.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA09225; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:03:11 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:03:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Noah Dunker To: lord henry Cc: Brad Karp , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: further question on the sony viao In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > HOWEVER, turning pnp-os off in the BIOS seems to have somehow killed > support for my ethernet card w/ > | driver allocation failed for 3Com > while somehow ENABLING hot-swapping -- in other words, it suddenly seems > to see the card inserted and removed, but can't load the driver for it. > > it's a 3c589, in case that helps. > thanks again, > kieran > My laptop (NEC Versa 4050C / 3.2-RELEASE / PAO3) Does that quite often, with all of my cards, Including the 3Com 589B. A lot of times, removing all PCMCIA cards, killing pccardd and restarting pccardd will resolve the problem. This may not help on your current setup, but it works fine for me. Even without PAO, it did this. I just added PAO to see if It would get my Flash Memory Card working (and it did). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message