From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 04:46:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C87316A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:46:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail1.cableone.net [24.116.0.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C331043D39 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:46:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tlp@LiquidX.org) Received: from maya.liquidx.org (unverified [24.119.12.253]) by smail1.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 13154868 for multiple; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 21:35:50 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:46:55 -0600 From: Travis Poppe To: Les Biffle Message-Id: <20040808224655.2eb1a8d0@maya.liquidx.org> In-Reply-To: <200408090347.i793lZ1e009410@ns3.safety.net> References: <20040808204538.3dfbfd9b@maya.liquidx.org> <200408090347.i793lZ1e009410@ns3.safety.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AST Ascentia 800N PCMCIA Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:46:41 -0000 On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:47:35 -0700 (MST) Les Biffle wrote: > > I've recently acquired an AST Ascentia 800N Notebook computer. > > I have a wonderful 800N, and the PCMCIA facility is really bad. Even > under (ahem) Windows, it will lock up when a CF card is inserted. I > have had good luck with the 3COM 589 ethernets, but nothing else. I > don't think you'll have much luck with this machine. I recently tried using 4.10-RELEASE instead of 5.2.1-RELEASE. Detected the card on boot and everything. Now all I have to do is get it to work properly :-) -Travis Poppe