From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 16 19:18:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from shell.dhp.com (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A0937B68E for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjw@dhp.com) Received: from Bites (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by shell.dhp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9BA1E43E for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 22:18:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 22:17:30 -0700 From: Matt White To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard problems Message-ID: <737743468.958515450@Bites> In-Reply-To: <3921E5D4.F715E0D0@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Wednesday, May 17, 2000 9:20 AM +0900 "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Matt White wrote: >> >> I also have another card that causes pccardd to core dump. My >> understanding is that there are BigChanges(tm) afoot for pccard support >> in FreeBSD. Are there similarly big changes planned for pccardd to the >> point where it wouldn't be worthwhile figuring out why this card is >> causing problems? I have no immediate use for the card. > > That is probably a CardBus card, which presently makes pccardd core dump > for silly reasons. A couple of NULL pointer guards in cardd.c's > card_inserted() is all one needs to prevent it from core dumping (though > CardBus is still not supported). Actually, this is a compact flash card of some kind. I can't remember whether it's the ether or the memory card that causes the problem. In any case, if I get a response as to whether pccardd is going to change enough to make a patch unworthwhile, I'll figure out what exactly the problem is and fix it. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message