Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:25:14 +0000 (GMT) From: wynkoop@wynn.com To: trhodes@FreeBSD.org (Tom Rhodes) Cc: "Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop@wynn.com> Subject: Re: Kernel bug with 5.3 prevents PCMCIA use Message-ID: <200412021825.iB2IPKAi012802@wa3yre.wynn.com> In-Reply-To: <20041202100854.0f17f331@localhost> from "Tom Rhodes" at Dec 02, 2004 10:08:54 AM
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> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:24:17 -0500 (EST)
> "Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop@wynn.com> wrote:
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> Hello Brett,
>
> >
> > Greeting-
> > The silly web form kept rejecting this, so here is an email.
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.3 fails to see the PCMCIA controller on the following
> > laptops:
> >
> > Compaq LTE 5100
> > Compaq LTE 5200
> > Compaq Armada 1130
> > AMS Roadpro
> > Toshiba Libretto 100
> > Toshiba Libretto 50
> > Nec Versa 2000
> >
> > Systems have ram from 24-64Mb and disk from 500M-20G. None of the systems
> > show PCMCIA controllers when booted from the install floppy set. One
> > system was installed by doing the install on another system and
> > moving the disk over. That resulted in a full minimal install
> > with no PCMCIA card being recognized by the default kernel.
> > Attempting to load the pcmcia modules resulted in a message that
> > they were already in the kernel. Starting pccardd resulted
> > in the following message:
> >
> > fatal error: no PC-CARD slots
> >
> > You can repeat this by doing a 5.3 install onto an older laptop
> > with only 16Bit PCMCIA card slots. You can also gain access to my
> > system by email request. I can make a slip or plip connection
> > to get it on the net for you.
>
> I've done nothing to investigate; however, I have CC:ed a local
> PCMCIA guru (Warner) to see what he has to say about your issue.
>
> Warner, have you seen this problem before?
>
> --
> Tom Rhodes
>
Greeting-
I also had the same reuslts with 5.2.1 and at that time just gave up
on things with the hope it would be fixed when 5.x became stable. I probably
should have said something then.
-Brett
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