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

[Steve Franks]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>

Slot seems to work with a compact-flash adapter.  dmesg looks normal
if you stick in a compact flash.  There is no dmesg output whatsoever
when you put in a network card.  I would assume HP put some nifty code
in the bios to disable it, except it works under win32 & fedora.
Since there's no NIC, I'm not enclosing a dmesg.

Steve