inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem

[michael Alexander]

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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of paul
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:16 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: inspiron 8000 pcmcia problem
> 
> 
> I've already posted this question to -mobile just trying to 
> get as much traffic as possible ok I got a rather frustrating 
> problem if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated 
> I've tryed 3 pcmcia cards on my i8k all 3 of them give me 
> device timeouts (netgear fa410tx, smc 8040, and a linksys 
> card) all of which are on the hardware compat list except the 
> smc card which i read somewhere is supported so i gave it a 
> try. Anyway I added pccard_enable="YES" 
> pccardd_ifconfig="DHCP" tryed ifconfig_ed1="DHCP" for fun and 
> i tryed changing the irq port with the -i flag for 
> pccardd_flags and editing pccard.conf. Nothing seems to work 
> I have miibus compiled in the kernel all the proper drivers 
> all 3 of the cards are recognized at boot however i recieve 
> the infamous ed1: device timeout message. The cards work on 
> linux and windows maybe I'm missing something I have never 
> dealt with pcmcia cards until now. I googled for 2 days and 
> asked on numerous irc channels. Am I missing something? It 
> seems to be a rather common problem with all the results from 
> my google searchs. I've also disabled everything in my bios 
> still nothing I've tryed using 4.9, 5.2rc2 and -current with  
> the same results. Someone please help me! I keep hearing its 
> an irq conflict my card gets set to irq 10 its seems even 
> when i try to change it..btw all tryed device.hints and kernel.conf. 
> Thanks -Paul

In your bios, is there an option for the pcmcia type??  Such as Auto,
cardbus, and something else that I can't remember right now... I don't know
if the Dell's have that option, I haven't checked mine, but I know our
toshiba's had it.  I haven't tried freebsd on a notebook, but when using
Novell Netware's Zenworks Imaging, which uses linux base for the clients
before imaging, I always had to set that option in bios to be cardbus (auto
would not work) for the cards we had (3com/megahertz FE575) in order for it
to be detected. 

-Mike