Kernel bug with 5.3 prevents PCMCIA use

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:24:17 -0500 (EST)
"Brett E. Wynkoop" <wynkoop at wynn.com> wrote:

Hello Brett,

> 
> Greeting-
>      The silly web form kept rejecting this, so here is an email.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.3 fails to see the PCMCIA controller on the following
> laptops:
> 
> Compaq LTE 5100
> Compaq LTE 5200
> Compaq Armada 1130
> AMS Roadpro
> Toshiba Libretto 100
> Toshiba Libretto 50
> Nec Versa 2000
> 
> Systems have ram from 24-64Mb and disk from 500M-20G.  None of the systems
> show PCMCIA controllers when booted from the install floppy set.  One
> system was installed by doing the install on another system and
> moving the disk over.  That resulted in a full minimal install
> with no PCMCIA card being recognized by the default kernel.
> Attempting to load the pcmcia modules resulted in a message that
> they were already in the kernel. Starting pccardd resulted
> in the following message:
> 
> fatal error: no PC-CARD slots
> 
> You can  repeat this by doing a 5.3 install onto an older laptop
> with only 16Bit PCMCIA card slots.  You can also gain access to my
> system by email request.  I can make a slip or plip connection
> to get it on the net for you.

I've done nothing to investigate; however, I have CC:ed a local
PCMCIA guru (Warner) to see what he has to say about your issue.

Warner, have you seen this problem before?

-- 
Tom Rhodes