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Date:      Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:21:57 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cardbus activation failed
Message-ID:  <400D55A5.4040804@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org>
References:  <400D1CA7.8050304@jawa.at> <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org>

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Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 13:18:47 +0100, Michael Hollmann wrote:
>  
>
>>hi
>>
>>
>>i am running FreeBSD 5.2 Release #0 on my laptop. my wlan card is 
>>"netgear WG512 Cardbus 32bit". i have no troubles to run this card under 
>>windows 2000 prof. but on FreeBSD 5.2 i get "cardbus activation failed".
>>
>>should this be fixed now ???
>>    
>>
>
>You haven't mentioned what kind of laptop you have.
>
>With my Dell Inspiron 8500, I can get things to work if I pull the card out
>and re-insert it.
>
>It's just that the onboard ethernet then blows up if it is enabled.
>  
>
Same here with a Latitude D600 - I have a bge (broadcom) gig-e onboard.  
Any cardbus card inserted hoses it all up, and FreeBSD thinks I have two 
bge cards installed, and things go downhill from there.  I think M. 
Warner Losh said he had some patches for this, but was waiting to commit 
or was waiting for time at least..

Eric


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