From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 08:22:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABFB16A4CE; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31A543D76; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0KGMN6T008310; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:22:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <400D55A5.4040804@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:21:57 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" References: <400D1CA7.8050304@jawa.at> <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <20040120161630.GA13178@panzer.kdm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Michael Hollmann cc: mobile@freebsd.org cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cardbus activation failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:22:44 -0000 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------