Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:54:56 +1000 (EST) From: Sleepless in Brisbane <snowy@snowy.org> To: Jon Povey <spamfilter@sullen.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA/Cardbus controller support? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006051252450.90056-100000@snowy.org> In-Reply-To: <393A9F2A.827AB600@sullen.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Jon Povey wrote: > I have looked around the archives and to-do lists and concluded that > cardbus cards are not supported; but what about cardbus controllers? > > A friend has a laptop we just installed 4.0-RELEASE on, and it apparently > picks up and configures the card interface/controller properly but not his > ethernet card (a 32-bit cardbus one). The card works under windows, so it > must be a cardbus controller that fbsd is at least appearing to detect. > > I have just installed 4.0-R on my laptop as well, but my card controller > doesn't seem to get detected. I have a D-Link DE-660, plain PCMCIA > ethernet card in there which should work, it has an entry in > /etc/pccard.conf.sample > > here are the only two apparently relevant lines from dmesg: > chip1: <PCI to CardBus bridge (vendor=1217 device=6832)> irq 9 at device > 5.0 on pci0 > chip2: <PCI to CardBus bridge (vendor=1217 device=6832)> irq 9 at device > 5.1 on pci0 Cardbus Support is still not available for FreeBSD at this time; whilst some of the controllers do work, they will only support 16bit cards. This is including -CURRENT. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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