From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 29 20:56:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2401C37B751 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10419; Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:56:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000729215431.04b6ab40@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:56:12 -0600 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Cc: Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000730130225.E65178@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000729211116.04b48c80@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000729211116.04b48c80@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:32 PM 7/29/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >You don't say which version of FreeBSD you're trying to install; maybe >the problem is there. It's 4.1. >I have an Inspiron 7500, and I've used it with a number of different >cards, including Linksys, and I haven't had problems. I'd guess that >you have a card with slightly different ID, one which isn't in >pccard.conf. Nope. I've tried two different cards. One of them is a 3Com which is recognized by FreeBSD on every other machine with which I've used it. The problem seems to be with PCMCIA. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message