Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:32:55 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: deischen@freebsd.org, eischen@vigrid.com Cc: a@jenisch.at Subject: Re: PCcards not working (5.1) Message-ID: <20031016.093255.68106905.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10310151059470.444-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> References: <20031015144651.GA22097@athena.oekb.co.at> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10310151059470.444-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes:
: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 a@jenisch.at wrote:
:
: > Hi,
: >
: > I'm running into a problem wrt PCcards under 5.1.
: >
: > First, here's what I've got:
: > Compaq Evo N610c, 1GB RAM, 40GB HD, latest BIOS
: > SW: FreeBSD 5.1
: >
: > The problem: The PCCard-slots are recognized upon boot but when I
: > insert a card into any of the two slots I get an error message,
: > telling me that there's no pccard slot present.
: >
: > (excert from /var/log/messages)
: >
: > Oct 15 09:19:16 beastie pccardd[507]: fatal error: no PC-CARD slots
: > Oct 15 09:19:23 beastie kernel: pccard0: can't alloc memory to read attributes
: > Oct 15 09:19:23 beastie kernel: pccard0: CARD ERROR!
: > Oct 15 09:19:23 beastie kernel: cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
: >
: > When I try to start pccardd by hand, even using "pccardd -d" it dies
: > immediately with the same error message.
:
: You should use devd instead of pccardd in -current.
: See devd(8) and devd.conf(8).
That's one problem, but not the problem. The problem that he's
hitting is that he can't get memory to read the card's CIS. That's
usually solved with setting hw.cbb.start_memory to a good value.
Warner
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