Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:24:23 -0800 (PST) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: re: no nic found Message-ID: <20050127182423.56493.qmail@web60408.mail.yahoo.com>
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Well I hate to contribute more easy questions to the list, but can someone actually link to some documentation? The closest coverage I could find in the handbook is 5 paragraphs, none of which say anything about the new setup. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html The release notes are just as quiet. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ Googling turns up a lot of 4.x info, and the cbb man page is less than enlightening, as is the cardbus man page. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cbb&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cardbus&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html So please, if you have some FM that I can R that actually explains how to set up my NIC then link it. Curse me under your breath, talk down to me, go all Napolean Dynamite about it if you will, but I'd really like to get this laptop moved to 5.x. Incidentally, if this is such a FAQ then maybe it should be in the FAQs, I checked there too. This is getting to be a FAQ. It is documented in the Handbook and release notes, but keeps popping up. Unless your system is fairly old, it's unlikely that the problem discussed in PR is causing a problem. By default, V5 does not use pccardd any more. It uses cbb and cardbus. pccardd won't run or start with the GENERIC config. What is your config? What does dmesg show? Is devd running? (It is critical to getting devices to attach.) rc.conf? there is way too little information to really guess what's failing. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:37:54 -0800 (PST) > From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Hey all, I'm trying to get on the 5.3 bandwagon with my Toshiba > Tecra 8100 after using 4.x on it for years (all same hardware). > The only problem I have is that my ethernet card is not seen. > It's a 3com 3c589c, which under 4.x worked right out of the gate > with the ep driver. Now when I try to start pccardd manually I > get the "fatal error: no PC-CARD slots" message in > /var/log/messages. ifconfig -a gets me a list of plip and lo > interfaces only. The only thing I could find online was a > thread saying there was a bug: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugbusters/2004-December/000070.html. > > Is this still the case? It just seems hard to believe that I > can't use a pcmcia card (I will try to find another one to test > with, but this one has worked under 4.x FBSD, 3 Linux distros > and 3 windoze versions). ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and with science. --Carl Sagan http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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