Compaq Evo N800c and FreeBSD

Gunnar Flygt gunnar.flygt at sr.se
Fri Feb 3 03:22:34 PST 2006


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:24:31PM -0800, Greg Smith wrote:
> Gunnar,
> 
> Maybe running of pccardd along with the memory setting of Kevin will do
> the job.

I just rebooted with the following setting:
hw.cbb.start_memory="0x20000000"

And now my Netgear card is detected as wi0 Will try to configure
the card to see if it is working properly :)

So it seems I'm cosing up to a solution!?
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:50:38AM -0800, Greg Smith wrote:
> >> Gunnar,
> >> 
> >> Did you have pccardd running?  With pccard_enable="YES" in
> /etc/rc.conf
> >> or wherever it might go in 5.0.  
> >> 
> >> It won't be automatically started with NEWCARD.
> >
> >Yes, it was activated. i.e it says pccard_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> >but it isn't running when I look closer after a boot, so I added
> >pccardd_flags="-z" which used to help. But not this time.
> >
> >When I put a card in the port it says:
> >end (ffffffff) > sc->memlimit (803fffff)
> >pccard0: Card has no functions!
> >cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
> >
> >And that's it.
> >
> >So I put in the pccardd_flags="-z"
> >
> >But that makes no difference. The machine doesn't like pccard when
> >running CURRENT.
> >> 
> >> Greg
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> 
> >> >OK! So now I've also tested with OLDCARD. It isn't any better.
> Result:
> >> >pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> >> >
> >> >And that's it. It doesn't detect the card or inform anything more.
> >> >
> >> >So should I say that this brand new Compaq Laptop is NO GO for
> FreeBSD
> >> >CURRENT? Just to inform you, I've tried Linux RedHat 8 and Mandrake
> of
> >> >some brand (8.x probably) with even worse result. They don't even
> >> boot.
> >> >
> >> >So it seems Compaq has done it. Being totally dedicated to M$
> >> >
> >> >Boring. I won't ever buy a Compaq laptop again. Pity I didn't stay
> >> >with Toshiba. Had only good things to say about my Tecra 9100.
> >> >Until it died electrically for me.
> >> >
> >> >-- 
> >> >Gunnar Flygt, SR
> >> >
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> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >-- 
> >Gunnar Flygt, Postmaster SR
> 
> 
> 

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