what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

> No error messages to speak of.  It's like it's not there.  It works
> fine in all my older laptops as ath0, I should have mentioned earlier.
>  Really hating having bought a compaq.

does your PCMICA slot even work in FreeBSD, I have a Lenovo Notebook
that it doesn;t even work.
maybe try sending a Full dmesg if you could.

Sam Fourman Jr.