Does your laptop have USB2? If so, it's the easy fix. I, also,
have had small luck with cardbus on Toshibas up to the 2510 CDS,
whereupon they begin to work (from dmesg):
(
cpu0: Intel Pentium/MMX ("GenuineIntel" 586-class) 267 MHz
...
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 21 device 0 cacheline 0x0, lattimer 0x0
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
re0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 "NETGEAR, GA511": RTL8169/8110SB (0x1000), irq
11, address 00:14:6c:2e:85:19
)
A 2500 and Satpro 4300 both didn't work and were cardbus too. Unfortunately,
the 2510 was also when they introduced USB2 that worked.
Dhu
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:51:39 -0500
"Vikas N Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> This is the first time I am trying OpenBSD (version 4.2) on my Pentium II
> laptop (yes a very old laptop).
> Everything has installed smoothly and fast, except that the cardbus is not
> working, and since there is no in-built ethernet port in the laptop as it
> is quite old, my only choice is to use a cardbus based pcmcia ethernet card.
> But the cardbus slot itself gives an error when OpenBSD boots up. When I
> use Linux on the same laptop, the cardbus slot and the card work just fine.
> I tried googling for solutions but could not find any that worked. There is
> nothing in the BIOS to turn on or off the cardbus since Linux does not
> require it. I want to use OpenBSD on the laptop.
>
> Here are the details of my laptop, and card and some lines from dmesg
> command. Unfortunately I cannot paste the dmesg since there is no way I can
> get that off the laptop without using floppy drives etc.
>
> Laptop : HP Omnibook 4100
> CPU: Intel Pentium II 686-class 512KB L2 cache, 266 MHz
> RAM : 64MB
> Cardbus cbb0 : TI PCI1250 Cardbus
> Cardbus cbb1 : TI PCI1250 Cardbus
> Cardbus ethernet card : D-Link DFE-690TXD
>
> error from cbb0 and cbb1 while booting is as follows :
>
> cbb0: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0xffffff88, sock_status 0xffffffff
> cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
> cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
> pcmcia0 at cardslot0
> cbb1: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0xffffff88, sock_status 0xffffffff
> cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
> cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x8, lattimer 0x20
> pcmcia1 at cardslot1
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Vikas Kumar
>
> http://www.vikaskumar.org/
