Diagnosing unrecognized hardware

[Fred Clift]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> : pccard0: <unknown card> (manufacturer=0x000b, product=0x7110) at function 0
> : pccard0:    CIS info: D-Link, DWL-650 Wireless PC Card RevP, ISL37101P-10
>
> Looks like this isn't a supported card.  You can add it to
> if_wi_pccard.c and see if that helps.  Changes are good that this
> isn't a wi card, but I could be wrong.


I'm just making the switch to 5.X from 4.7 on my laptop and this is the
first time I've had to deal with the NEWCARD stuff.

My question is is there any easy way to experiment with unknown
pcmcia/cardbus cards to get them to work without rebuilding the whole
kernel, or at least modules?

In 4.x, I can tweak a few lines in pccardd.conf and have unknown cards use
different drivers, different options etc.  I believe that _some_ of that
info can be set in devd.conf, but it doesn't appear that all of it can.
In particular, I have an unrecognized prisim2 card (known working with
4.7's wi driver) that I could previously just drop in to /etc/pccardd.conf
but which now seems to require at least rebuilding a kernel module.  Isn't
this a functionality regression?  or do I just not understand what I'm
doing (be kind!)?

Fred


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