Unrecognized PCMCIA using FreeBSD 4.10 on Gateway Laptop.

[Punahele Tannehill]

Bryce Alexander wrote:
> I am having a problem with my Gateway Laptop not recognizing any PCMCIA
> cards, when I display the dmesg I get the following:
> 
> pcic0: <O2micro 6912 PCI-Cardbus Bridge> irq 128 at device 2.0 on pci2
> pcic0: PCI Memory allocated: 0x88000000
> pcic0: No PCI interrupt routed, trying ISA.
> pcic0: Polling mode
> pcic0: Warning: O2micro OZ68xx chips may not work
> pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
> 
> When I insert a card I get:
> 
> pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> 
> But in the case of my netgear 802.11b MA401 it should bring up a wi0
> device, but it doesn't. Same for any type of pcmcia card.

Try adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf:

     hw.pcic.intr_path="1"

and reboot.  It enables ISA interrupt routing.

Puna


> I did notice that in the man page for pcic that the 02micro 6912 is not
> on the list of supported cardbus bridges and the warning that the 02
> micro chips may not work well.
> 
> My question is if anyone knows the development status of the 02 micro
> chip support on the pcic, or if there are any patches or workarounds?
> 
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