PCcards not working (5.1)

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 a at 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).

-- 
Dan Eischen