Enabling PCCARD When Installing From Floppies - FreeBSD 5.3

[Iain Dooley]

I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE via FTP using boot floppies 
from:

ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/floppies/

on an IBM thinkpad using an "Orinoco Gold" wireless LAN card (which uses the 
wi driver) in the PCMCIA slot of the thinkpad.

the boot process is happening normally, however the power light of the card 
is not coming on and the wi interface is not showing up in the network 
interface list of sysinstall.

i have tested the card in a windows laptop and it appears to be functioning 
correctly.

in the 'options' menu of sysinstall, the "Skip PCCARD" option is set to 'No' 
and when i attempt to rescan devices, and do pnpscan, the card does not show 
up.

i did lsdev from the command line but could not see the PCCARD slot (i'm not 
sure if it should show up there anyway).

i tried the installation process with the 4.10-RELEASE floppies, and the 
PCCARD slot was detected and sysinstall went through an initialisation 
process. this does not occur with the 5.3-RELEASE floppies and i can't see 
the pccard device in the boot messages.

is there a way that i can view the boot messages from sysinstall so that i 
can be sure? i would assume that since the PCCARD slot is detected by the 
4.10 floppies and not the 5.3 floppies that the PCCARD slot itself is 
functioning correctly (a message also appears with the 4.10 floppies that 
says a card is inserted in pccard slot 0).

the card itself does not show up as an interface using the 4.10 floppies.

i hope i've provided enough information for someone to shed some light on 
this situation. if not, please let me know what more i can do to help you to 
help me!!

cheers

iain

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