Compaq Evo N800c and FreeBSD

[Gunnar Flygt]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:34:38PM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:27:24PM +0300, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:59:34AM +0100, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> > > Sad to say that this machine works but not much more with
> > > 5.0-CURRENT. The whole pccard thing is not working at all.
> > > 
> > > If I put another disc in the machine with 4.7-STABLE
> > > pccard works OK (except for, of course, cardbus support)
> > > 
> > > With 5.0 I cannot get any kind of pccard to work. For some
> > > of them, if they are cardbus cards, the mahine freezes and
> > > has to be power downed and restarted. With older pccards,
> > > like Netgear MA401 or 3Com ordinary network cards, the 
> > > machine says it cannot allocate memory.
> > > 
> > > I have nothing in /etc/pccard.conf on any of the discs, so
> > > there is nothing there to explain.
> > > 
> > > Is this machine just too M$-specific to work with CURRENT?
> > 
> > What do you use for -CURRENT: OLDCARD or NEWCARD?
> 
> Right out of the box NEWCARD I guess. Haven't given it a thought
> > 
> > -- 
OK! So now I've also tested with OLDCARD. It isn't any better. Result:
pccard: card inserted, slot 0

And that's it. It doesn't detect the card or inform anything more.

So should I say that this brand new Compaq Laptop is NO GO for FreeBSD
CURRENT? Just to inform you, I've tried Linux RedHat 8 and Mandrake of
some brand (8.x probably) with even worse result. They don't even boot.

So it seems Compaq has done it. Being totally dedicated to M$

Boring. I won't ever buy a Compaq laptop again. Pity I didn't stay
with Toshiba. Had only good things to say about my Tecra 9100.
Until it died electrically for me.

-- 
Gunnar Flygt, SR