Re: pccard not working on old laptop

Björn König <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brian wrote:
> I've installed 6.2 on an old laptop.  I've been unable to get it
> to detect the pccard bus, and therefore have no networking.
> It worked on this laptop in the BSD 4.x days. I've seen several
> posts in the archive mentioning that the fix prior to 6.x was
> to replace:
> device     cbb
> device     pccard
> device     cardbus
>
> with:
> device     pcic
> device     card
>
> but that this old driver was removed in 6.x.

You have to be patient. Support for old ISA pccard bridges will be
reintroduced with 7.0, 7.1 or probably later. There are already signs of
effort in the source code.

Björn


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