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

[Pete Wright]

VaibhaV Sharma wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:51, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>VaibhaV Sharma wrote:
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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.
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>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?
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>
>Ah! Thanks for making me do that again. I missed the cardbus dmesg
>output the last time I checked.
>
>Just for the records if anyone else is searching for this, dmesg had
>this - 
>
>	cbb0: Could not grab register memory
>
>Googled and someone suggested putting this in /boot/loader.conf -
>
>	hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1
>
>and viola! it works now -
>
>-------------------------------
>cbb0: <TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2
>cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
>pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
>
>wi0: <NETGEAR MA401 Wireless PC Card> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10
>function 0 config 1 on pccard0
>wi0: 802.11 address: 00:30:ab:14:07:8f
>wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163-SST-flash
>wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (0.3.0), Station (1.3.4)
>wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
>-------------------------------
>
>Thank you very much,
>
>VaibhaV
>http://vsharma.net
>
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woo hoo!  good to hear it.

-pete

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