After years I had to use PCMCIA/CardBus Ethernet card with FreeBSD and I was surprised my card is not working.
After some Googling I realized poor or no PCMCIA/Cardsbus support is a widely and well-known problem with FreeBSD since 7.0-RELEASE.
e.g.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115623
I have collected some cards and spent two days testing present PCMCIA/CardBus support on our training Thinkpad T400 and Dell Latitude D500 notebooks.
All cards work with OpenBSD-4.5/-4.6/-4.7, NetBSD-5.0.2, Linux, WindowsXP/7
NONE OF THEM WORKS with present FreeBSD versions on any notebooks. Tested with
- FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386 and amd64
- FreeBSD-8-STABLE i386 and amd64
- FreeBSD-9-CURRENT i386 and amd64
I have tried the follwing cards:
- NEC Aterm WL300NC
- Cisco Aironet 350
- Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480B
- NetGear GA511
- Xircom CreditcCard Ethernet 100/100
- SanDisk 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter
- SAnDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter
- Toshiba PCMCIA Flash 640MB
Most of them are my own old cards I have used regularly for years without any problem up to FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE.
I have played around with sysctl hw.cbb I/O and memory settings but without any success.
So it seems FreeBSD has no PCMCIA/CardsBus support since 7.0-RELEASE.
I still can not really believe it.
Any experiences?
Or maybe solution?
After some Googling I realized poor or no PCMCIA/Cardsbus support is a widely and well-known problem with FreeBSD since 7.0-RELEASE.
e.g.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115623
I have collected some cards and spent two days testing present PCMCIA/CardBus support on our training Thinkpad T400 and Dell Latitude D500 notebooks.
All cards work with OpenBSD-4.5/-4.6/-4.7, NetBSD-5.0.2, Linux, WindowsXP/7
NONE OF THEM WORKS with present FreeBSD versions on any notebooks. Tested with
- FreeBSD 7-STABLE i386 and amd64
- FreeBSD-8-STABLE i386 and amd64
- FreeBSD-9-CURRENT i386 and amd64
I have tried the follwing cards:
- NEC Aterm WL300NC
- Cisco Aironet 350
- Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480B
- NetGear GA511
- Xircom CreditcCard Ethernet 100/100
- SanDisk 6-in-1 PC Card Adapter
- SAnDisk CompactFlash PC Card Adapter
- Toshiba PCMCIA Flash 640MB
Most of them are my own old cards I have used regularly for years without any problem up to FreeBSD-6.0-RELEASE.
I have played around with sysctl hw.cbb I/O and memory settings but without any success.
So it seems FreeBSD has no PCMCIA/CardsBus support since 7.0-RELEASE.
I still can not really believe it.
Any experiences?
Or maybe solution?