Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 15 November 2004 at 18:09:17 -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> At 12:28 PM +1030 11/16/04, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Doh! I saw "hardware" and I thought "computer". You are right, of course.
>
> 3Com EtherLink III, 3C569D
> 3Com Megahertz, 3CCE589ET

Can you borrow a different brand of card and see if that works?

> The actual message seen in dmsg when putting in the second card is as above:
>    pccard0: Can no attach more than one child.
> I can't get a file off the system yet, unfortunately, so I can't give
> the full dmesg output.

That would be helpful, preferably with a verbose debug.  Can't you
connect at least one of them?

Greg
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