Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:27:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Gareth Williams <gareth@venditor.com> To: Greg Smith <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Another Wavelan Problem Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0106190725290.5003-100000@node0b2a.a2000.nl> In-Reply-To: <200106181422130220.001BB331@smtp.mail.yahoo.com>
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Greg, The card does not work at all since Windows was last ran. The only way I can get it to work is to re-install BSD (But that is more a reflection on my abilities than anyhting else ;-) And yes, my laptop does have a built in NIC and Modem. Cheers, Gareth On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Greg Smith wrote: > Gareth, > > Does that mean the card has not worked since you first ran Windows? Or > does it work under some circumstances? > > According to this description it would only work after a re-install and > before Windows ran. That seems a little odd. > > BTW, does this machine have a mini-PCI NIC or modem? > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > > >Nope sorry, it's not that. I can use windows, turn the machine off > and > >the next day start up FreeBSD, and it still doesn't work. The only > >solution I have at the moment is to do a re-install. > > > >On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Greg Smith wrote: > > > >> Gareth, > >> > >> On some machines a cold reboot is necessary to keep the pccard > >> controller happy when going from Windows to FreeBSD. > >> > >> Let us know, but I think that will solve your problem. > >> > >> Greg > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> > >> >Hi there, > >> > > >> >Thanks to the sterling help from you chaps, i've managed to get my > >> Wavelan > >> >card working with very little trouble indeed. However, I have > noticed > >> one > >> >thing: My laptop is a dual boot machine with Windows ME being the > >> other > >> >OS. Whenever, I use Windows, and reboot into FreeBSD, then the > card > >> >doesn't work any more (I only get the no entry for "Null (Null)" in > >> >database error message). > >> > > >> >Does anyone have any insight on this one? > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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