ORiNOCO Wireless - troubles

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:27 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:39 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>
> >>I have a Siemens 510 laptop with 128 MB RAM and 4GB HDD.
> >>It has no Network card onboard. So I have only wireless pccard
> >>ORiNOCO Silver.
> >>I had before Intel Wireless/PRO 2011B. This one was bad (for
> >> FreeBSD) Now I have ORiNOCO, but I can't make it working.
> >>It works in Linux, but I want FreeBSD.
> >>I have compile new kernel, but it says:
> >>CIS is too long - truncating!
> >>pccard0: Card has no functions!
> >>cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
> >>
> >>Can anybody say, what must I doing?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Look for information regarding your laptop brand/model, or similar
> > models, at:
> >
> > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> >
> > What version of FreeBSD are you running?  I'm not familiar with the
> > laptop; but FreeBSD 5.* has problems with many of the older pcmcia
> > slots.  If you're running FreeBSD 5.*, consider:
> >
> > 1. recompiling the kernel using the OLDCARD kernel configuration
> > file. 2. If ACPI is enabled, try booting with it disabled. (If it's
> > disabled, try booting with it enabled.)
> > 3. You might also consider changing to FreeBSD 4.10, the production
> > version of FreeBSD.
>
> I was already at http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
>
> I'm running 5.2 , I had 4.9, bat it was the same trouble.
> May be 4.10 is better that way ...
>
> I've not found a reference about including OLDCARD during kernel
> compiling. How can I do that?

If I'm reading OLDCARD correctly, it references GENERIC; so if you're 
still using a GENERIC kernel, you can:

	#unless you're the only user on a standalone pc, boot into single user
	#login as root
	cd /usr/src
	make clean
	make buildkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
	make installkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
	shutdown -r now

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould