I'm getting REALLY frustrated. Google searches, forum searches, for DAYS... and well... I can't get this to work!
I've got FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on a HP Pavilion zd7000. I've had trouble after trouble, but it has been worth it - but when I am on the go, I need to have a modem and a wireless NIC. So... the solution is clearly PC cards or cardbus cards, yes? To test the bus and see if I can get things working, I borrow a 3com Megahertz 56kglobal modem (3CCM156) pc card and a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps from a friend. These are both found in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf so I figure they would be a good start. I recompiled my kernel with these options: device cbb device pccard device cardbus In dmesg | egrep "cbb|cardbus|pccard" I get: cbb0: <ENE CB720 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd2004000-0xd2004fff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb0: [MPSAFE] Other possibly relevant stuff: pcib0: slot 31 INTB routed to irq 17 pcib0: slot 31 INTB routed to irq 17 pcib2: slot 1 INTA routed to irq 17 cbb0: <ENE CB720 PCI-CardBus Bridge> mem 0xd2004000-0xd2004fff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 I thought that looked good. So I slap in the Xircom ethernet, and I get: CIS is too long -- truncating pccard0: Card has no functions! cbb0: PC Card card activation failed Same thing for the 3Com modem! I tried a Cisco wireless card, it gives a different error but ends the same: cbb0: ready never happened, status = 4d pccard0: Card has no functions! cbb0: PC Card card activation failed This is REALLY getting to me now, I want nothing more than for this notebook to be a good solid usable machine. It already breaks my USB when I turn on ACPI but that is at least tolerable because I rarely use a USB device when I am in need of ACPI. However, a wireless pc card and a modem pc card will be VERY VERY hard to live without! Thank you. Please supply ANY information you can, ANYTHING I can look for, ANY articles I can read on this subject. Rather desperate here... Coming up on some travel time :-/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
