Novell generic probe failed

Any ideas on what this means?

Code:
Novell generic probe failed: 0

It happens when I insert an IBM Ethernet II Credit Card Adapter into a PCMCIA slot on my laptop.

I have tried three such cards and all give the same result.

Is this a driver problem or all three cards FUBAR? I do get a light on my switch when I connect up the cable.
 
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

The cards are probably close to 20 years old so I'd imagine that they would have been supported in much earlier versions of FreeBSD
 
The cards might still be supported (or they might not). Have you verified that the card slots and necessary infrastructure in your laptop is still supported? dmesg output and pciconf -lv might help.
 
If these are 16-bit PCMCIA cards, I don't think they'll work. I forget who, but someone did a major clean-up/removal of old 16-bit PCMCIA drivers in FreeBSD 8 or 9, leaving only 32-bit PCCard support in place. You'll want to test with an older version of FreeBSD (start with 6 and work your way up until it no longer works). Most likely, there won't be a supported version of FreeBSD that supports those cards.
 
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