[nycbug-talk] How to enable pccard/PCMCIA cards?

[Pete Wright]

VaibhaV Sharma wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:17, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>>>I don't think I see it on the supported hardware list...
>>>>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
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>>>The page lists MA401 as - 
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>>>Netgear MA401			   Prism-II/2.5  PCMCIA
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>>i assume you have the Prism driver compiled into your kernel?  not to 
>>point out the obvious tho...if you do what does dmesg say about the card 
>>on bootup?
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>Yup. I have that in the kernel. Config file -
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># Wireless NIC cards
>device          wlan     # 802.11 support
>device          an       # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs.
>device          awi      # BayStack 660 and others
>device          wi       # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.
>#device         wl       # Older non 802.11 Wavelan wireless NIC.
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>The wi driver supports MA401.
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>Correct me if I am wrong, my point is that even before the kernel can
>get to the PCMCIA card, it should have the driver for the pcmcia
>subsystem. How do I enable the pcmcia services? /etc/rc.d/pccard start
>does not seem to do anything.
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i'm not a PCMCIA expert, but that should do it aslong you have support 
in your kernel for PCMCIA.  In your dmesg log, how does it report PCMCIA 
detection?

-pete

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