pccard not working on old laptop

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.org
Mon Jun 18 22:28:36 UTC 2007


"Brian Hoort" 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.
> 
> Everything in the dmesg.boot appears successful until:
> ..
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0--0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>  unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0510> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources (memory)
> unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0600> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
> unknown: <CTL0001> can't assign resources (port)
> unknown: <PNP0200> can't assign resources (port)
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 199310141 Hz quality 800
> ..
> 
> Any suggestions?

I wish you better luck than I. If no luck, Ref my earlier:
  Message-id: <200706122029.l5CKTQ3n071855 at fire.jhs.private>
  Subject: FreeBSD-6 fails to install on too many old laptops.
  Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:29:26 +0200

After FreeBSD-4.11 worked, & 6.2 failed on my pcmcia, I tried NetBSD
latest release:  Worked fine, (except beware NetBSD's vampire teeth
in the MBR, my FreeBSD-4.11 partition is still there I hope, but
MBR can't boot it).  Ref http://berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#netbsd

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