Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:45:42 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 12:03 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 17:02:40 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>> Greetings again. I want to use a laptop as a router under 4.10. I
>>> have two PCcards that it recognizes, but when starting up, after
>>> connecting to the first card, I get the message:
>>>    pccard0: Can no attach more than one child.
>>> So, is this a limitation in the kernel that I can fix with a
>>> re-build? Something in one of the config files that I haven't figured
>>> out? Something that is fixed in 5.3? Or... ?
>>
>> This isn't a general problem.  It must be related to your hardware,
>> but you don't say what it is.
>
> Sorry; didn't realize it might be relevant. Dell Inspiron 3500.
> FreeBSD is definitely seeing both cards; it responds nicely when I
> eject either of the cards. It just won't do anything useful when I
> insert the second card. More clues appreciated!

More information appreciated.  People shouldn't have to ask you twice
to know what cards you're using, or what the messages were.  You might
like to take a look at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html.

Greg
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