On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Doug Rabson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does your bios have a setting for 'PNP compliant OS' or similar? If it
> > does, set it to 'no' and see if it helps. The current pci code relies on
> > the bios to program port and memory locations for cards and its possible
> > that this isn't happening for your card/bios combination.
>
> On a slightly different tack, the ed0 driver no longer seems to
> work for PCMCIA cards (from a Sept.2 cvsup'd -current). It used to work
> on a Aug 23rd -current.
>
> I've got an old Toshiba Tectra 730XCDT laptop, and my Accton EN2216
> PCMCIA 10BT LAN card no longer works. However, I'm not sure if my
> problem is related to the recent pnp changes or not. At bootup, the
> kernel reports:
>
> pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
>
> I've been getting this forever, and it's never seemed to cause any
> problems (I also have no idea how to fix this, as this is a laptop).
> Running pnpinfo shows no pnp devices, which is usual (it did this with
> the older versions of -current, too).
>
> Here's the basic problem: at bootup, the kernel doesn't report the
> presence (or absence) of an ed0 device (I've forgotten if this is
> supposed to happen or not). When I insert the LAN card, the pccardd
> daemon reports:
>
> driver allocation failed for ACCTON(EN2216-PCMCIA-ETHERNET): Device not configured
>
> (The pccardd daemon is trying to use the ed0 driver.)
I know about this. I'm hoping to work this out with Warner (who is working
on pccard) since it should be fixed by some of his pending pccard work.
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