Kernel bug with 5.3 prevents PCMCIA use

[wynkoop at wynn.com]

> 
> 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
> 
Greeting-
     I also had the same reuslts with 5.2.1 and at that time just gave up
on things with the hope it would be fixed when 5.x became stable.  I probably
should have said something then.

-Brett

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