In article <[email protected]>, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >I have an old x86 laptop which has all network stuff in PCMCIA cardbus >slots. It was running 7.0 just fine, I decided to upgrade to 7.0.2, by >using the RAMDISK kernel. > >The 10/100 card intel (rebranded IBM) card worked fine, recognized as tlp0 > >I was able to download the packages and upgrade, testifying that the >interface works and transfer speed was good to. [1] > >I was able to successfully boot into the new system and work, I also >updated many packages with pkg_add -U, proving that network was fine. > >The next day I start the laptop again and there is no interface, even if >the card is inserted. cardslot0 is seen, but no tlp0. If I remove and >reinsert the card, the kernel crashes. If I boot without card and insert >it later, it crashes. > > >This looks like as weird behaviour, doesn't it? Of course no network >makes it tedious to get out logs and other things, but any clue or hint? > > >Riccardo > > >[1] Actually, I had to retry, the first attempt had the kernel crash >when processing the comp.tgz package, the second went just fine
So what's the current status? Does the kernel boot and find the card or not? christos
