I am attempting to configure a couple of pccards on a DELL Inspiron 3500
running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Neither card works:
1) The first card is some sort of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. It seems
to be called a "DELL Margi". Whenever the card is inserted and
pccardd is running, the entire system hangs so hard that console
I/O no longer works. Even ctl-alt-del is ignored. The power
button is ignored. I have to turn the machine off by poking a
special hidden recessed button on the side with a paper clip.
I don't expect to find a FreeBSD driver for this card, but I would
prefer that having it physically installed didn't hang the system.
2) The second card is a "DELL 10/100 LAN+56K Modem CardBus by 3Com".
A label on the back of the card says "Model 3CCFEM656".
The command "pccardc dumpcis" reports:
Configuration data for card in slot 1
Tuple #1, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0
I assume that pccardd cannot recognize and configure cards without
configuration data. Is this card broken in some sense? Can anyone
recommend a driver?
Thanks,
Dan Strick
d...@math.berkeley.edu
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