Re: Kernel bug with 5.3 prevents PCMCIA use
"M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.bugbusters |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In message: <[email protected]> [email protected] writes: : > : > On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:24:17 -0500 (EST) : > "Brett E. Wynkoop" <[email protected]> wrote: : > : > 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. The Libretto 100 should have worked, but the others all have ISA PCIC bridges. 5.3 should have worked with that, but evidentally didn't. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugbusters To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"