HP Pavilion ze4400 and 5.1-RELEASE

[Peter Losher]

Hi - 

I am debugging a colleague's new laptop, a HP Pavilion ze4400 running 
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.   It's been a interesting experience, having to 
turn off ACPI to allow the touchpad to work, but the side effect is the 
on-board NIC (a NatSemi running under the sis driver) refuses to run at 
startup; it's waiting for a 'watchdog timeout'.  I can run dhclient 
manually and all is then well, but it's suffice to say a minor 
annoyance.

All of that would be moot if I could get the PCMCIA wireless card to 
work.   I purchased a Airlink+ PCMCIA card at Fry's (it's the only 16bit 
PC Card 802.11b card they sell these days, although they do keep a heady 
supply)  It's a fine, if ugly, card - It's using a Prism v2.5 chipset, 
and works fine on my production laptop (Dell Inspiron 5100) under the wi 
driver.  However, any PC Card you stick in the slot causes the whole 
system to freeze.... hard.

I have tried all the tricks I used on this Dell, turning on 
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range, but to no avail.  Does anyone here 
have a recent HP Pavilion laptop, and if so, how did you get your 
wireless card to work?

Best Wishes - Peter
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