From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 4 19:55:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snowy.org (snowy.org [203.37.251.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B509B37B7AC for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snowy@snowy.org) Received: from localhost (snowy@localhost) by snowy.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03927; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:54:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from snowy@snowy.org) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:54:56 +1000 (EST) From: Sleepless in Brisbane To: Jon Povey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA/Cardbus controller support? In-Reply-To: <393A9F2A.827AB600@sullen.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: irq 9 at device > 5.0 on pci0 > chip2: 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