Want to use two PCCards on a laptop

Paul Hoffman phoffman at proper.com
Mon Nov 15 17:45:51 PST 2004


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!

--Paul Hoffman


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