On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:49 pm, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:53:45 -0500, Andrew L. Gould
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 10:27 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> >> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >> > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 08:39 am, Maksym Marchenko wrote:
> >> >>Hi!
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>I have a Siemens 510 laptop with 128 MB RAM and 4GB HDD.
> >> >>It has no Network card onboard. So I have only wireless pccard
> >> >>ORiNOCO Silver.
> >> >>I had before Intel Wireless/PRO 2011B. This one was bad (for
> >> >> FreeBSD) Now I have ORiNOCO, but I can't make it working.
> >> >>It works in Linux, but I want FreeBSD.
> >> >>I have compile new kernel, but it says:
> >> >>CIS is too long - truncating!
> >> >>pccard0: Card has no functions!
> >> >>cbb0: PC Card card activation failed
> >> >>
> >> >>Can anybody say, what must I doing?
> >> >>
> >> >>Thanks in advance.
> >> >
> >> > Look for information regarding your laptop brand/model, or
> >> > similar models, at:
> >> >
> >> > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> >> >
> >> > What version of FreeBSD are you running? I'm not familiar with
> >> > the laptop; but FreeBSD 5.* has problems with many of the older
> >> > pcmcia slots. If you're running FreeBSD 5.*, consider:
> >> >
> >> > 1. recompiling the kernel using the OLDCARD kernel configuration
> >> > file. 2. If ACPI is enabled, try booting with it disabled. (If
> >> > it's disabled, try booting with it enabled.)
> >> > 3. You might also consider changing to FreeBSD 4.10, the
> >> > production version of FreeBSD.
> >>
> >> I was already at http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> >>
> >> I'm running 5.2 , I had 4.9, bat it was the same trouble.
> >> May be 4.10 is better that way ...
> >>
> >> I've not found a reference about including OLDCARD during kernel
> >> compiling. How can I do that?
> >
> > If I'm reading OLDCARD correctly, it references GENERIC; so if
> > you're still using a GENERIC kernel, you can:
> >
> > #unless you're the only user on a standalone pc, boot into single
> > user #login as root
> > cd /usr/src
> > make clean
> > make buildkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
> > make installkernel KERNCONF=OLDCARD
> > shutdown -r now
>
> That is wrote in FreeBSD Handbook:
> Procedure 2. Building a Kernel the ``New'' Way
>
> Change to the /usr/src directory.
> # cd /usr/src
> Compile the kernel.
> # make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
> Install the new kernel.
> # make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
>
> But I don't know, because elder OLDCARD was bigger, actually that
> was like GENERIC. But in 5.2 he isn't so big, only 17 lines
>
> http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/i386/conf/OLDCARD?v=RELENG52
>
> So I don't know, can I really do this with that new OLDCARD???
I think so. Look for a line in OLDCARD that says:
include GENERIC
If you 'make buildkernel' and it finishes successfully, you probably
have a good kernel. If it errors out, don't install it -- do a 'make
clean' instead.
Andrew Gould
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