From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 16:20:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8ACD16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from titan.cc.wwu.edu (titan.cc.wwu.edu [140.160.240.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B1543D45 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from summerj@cc.wwu.edu) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by titan.cc.wwu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i0T0K3920787; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jacob Summerfelt X-Authentication-Warning: titan.cc.wwu.edu: nobody set sender to summerj@cc.wwu.edu using -f Received: from 140.160.138.120 (SquirrelMail authenticated user summerj) by www.ac.wwu.edu with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:20:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49457.140.160.138.120.1075335603.squirrel@www.ac.wwu.edu> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:20:03 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: PC card problems in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:20:09 -0000 I'm getting REALLY frustrated. Google searches, forum searches, for DAYS... and well... I can't get this to work! I've got FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE on a HP Pavilion zd7000. I've had trouble after trouble, but it has been worth it - but when I am on the go, I need to have a modem and a wireless NIC. So... the solution is clearly PC cards or cardbus cards, yes? To test the bus and see if I can get things working, I borrow a 3com Megahertz 56kglobal modem (3CCM156) pc card and a Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps from a friend. These are both found in /etc/defaults/pccard.conf so I figure they would be a good start. I recompiled my kernel with these options: device cbb device pccard device cardbus In dmesg | egrep "cbb|cardbus|pccard" I get: cbb0: mem 0xd2004000-0xd2004fff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb0: [MPSAFE] Other possibly relevant stuff: pcib0: slot 31 INTB routed to irq 17 pcib0: slot 31 INTB routed to irq 17 pcib2: slot 1 INTA routed to irq 17 cbb0: mem 0xd2004000-0xd2004fff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci2 I thought that looked good. So I slap in the Xircom ethernet, and I get: CIS is too long -- truncating pccard0: Card has no functions! cbb0: PC Card card activation failed Same thing for the 3Com modem! I tried a Cisco wireless card, it gives a different error but ends the same: cbb0: ready never happened, status = 4d pccard0: Card has no functions! cbb0: PC Card card activation failed This is REALLY getting to me now, I want nothing more than for this notebook to be a good solid usable machine. It already breaks my USB when I turn on ACPI but that is at least tolerable because I rarely use a USB device when I am in need of ACPI. However, a wireless pc card and a modem pc card will be VERY VERY hard to live without! Thank you. Please supply ANY information you can, ANYTHING I can look for, ANY articles I can read on this subject. Rather desperate here... Coming up on some travel time :-/