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Date:      Fri Nov 24 00:10:54 CST 2000
From:      shizuka00 <shizuka00@sinagirl.com>
To:        Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>, shizuka00 <shizuka00@sinagirl.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Re: WaveLAN PCI problem
Message-ID:  <20001123161054.19220.qmail@hk.sina.com.hk>

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In this case, I have to dump either my motherboard or the adaptor because my motherboard is an ASUS CUSL2 which has no ISA slot. I may have some spare time next month, is there any doc detailed how to complete the emulation code?

Thanks.

> I have a Lucent WaveLAN wireless lan card that come with a PCI PCMCIA
 >> adapter and it works fine on W98SE and RH 7.0. However, today when I tried
 >> it on FBSD 4.2-stable, it hang when probing pnp device. I also tried to
 >> change BIOS setting as PnP OS = yes, then it worked fine until pccardd
 >> recognized the card and loaded the driver. The system then hang and
 >> Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work unless I pressed the reset button. Please refer
 >> to the enclosed message file when I booted with "boot -v" option.
 >
 >You are currently out of luck. The problem is in the pccard code, which only
 >supports the cardbus bridge in pccard emulation mode. This works on laptops
 >because the laptop BIOS initializes some neccesary things to make it work, but
 >it fails on desktop machines. Your only solution right now is to use a ISA
 >PCMCIA adapter instead of the PCI one. That works just fine (I have nearly 100
 >installations like that).
 >
 >Blaz Zupan,  Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
 >E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325
 >
 >
 >
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