pccard on Latitude C800

[M. Warner Losh]

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            Alexey Koptsevich <kopts at astro.psu.edu> writes:
: 
: > I think that you need ath (and ath_hal) in your kernel, or you need to
: > kldload if_ath.
: 
: OK, I did not try it before, being sure it will not work!
: 
: I have just loaded the module, and the Link light on the card is now ON,
: but ath0 has not appeared in the ifconfig output. Then I unloaded the
: module (and it disappeared from kldstat), but the light is still ON. Is it
: the problem with pccard, or with the ath driver?

not sure. what are the last 20 or so lines of dmesg?

: Is it safe to remove pccard while it has the light ON?

generally yes.

Warner