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If you say so, but I have two laptops, and neither of them would work my
linksys cards before I made this change, and both of them worked after I
made it.

Maybe it's just voodoo, but it works for me.  And I've had mail with
people for whom it also seemed to make a difference.  So, Xeon, I'd try
it anyway.  One thing for sure:  it won't hurt.


Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > Immediate device timeouts are usually indicative of IRQ conflicts.
> >
> > But there is another problem (and it might even be the same problem, or
> > the original problem); namely, FreeBSD ships with an (IMHO) broken
> > kernel config; at any rate, one that doesn't work with PCMCIA cards.
> >
> > Find the line that looks like this:
> >
> > device                ed0     at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
> >
> > and change it to just this:
> >
> > device                ed
> >
> > and rebuild your kernel.
> 
> The above should not effect PCMCIA cards at all, since the PCMCIA/PCCARD
> infrastructure completely ignores the settings above.
> 
> Nate

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