Re: pcmcia cards on Sony laptop

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill schrieb:
> I'm still working on getting this Sony PCG-R505EL to boot DragonFly - it
> does that just fine, but I can't get it to notice any of my PCMCIA cards. 
> I insert any card, and there's no reaction - nothing in messages, no
> lights on the cards.  I can confirm the cards are functional, and the slot
> of the system should be working.
>
> Relevant parts of dmesg:
> cbb0: <RF5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 3 at device 5.0 on pci2
> cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
> pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
> cbb0: Unsupported card type detected
>
> That last unsupported message happens during boot with no cards inserted.
>
> Searching around on the web for BSD-related notes on it has only got me a
> few reports of people complaining about it not working, after going from
> FreeBSD-4 to FreeBSD-5.

Justin,

does it make a difference if you plug in the card prior to booting? Or 
if you boot without ACPI?

Sascha

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